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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blowing It Up, Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The song _______ is listed on the first half of the Stooges second album which Bangs describes as the better half of the album.
(a) T.V. Eye.
(b) L.A. Blues.
(c) Velvet Underground.
(d) Carburetor Dung.

2. One group that Bangs felt did use a more freestyle approach was ________, but they were among the few.
(a) Led Zeppelin.
(b) The Mysterians.
(c) Question Mark.
(d) The Velvet Underground.

3. Bangs feels that Morrison has a unique talent to take a simple phrase and repeat it until it becomes something ______.
(a) Political.
(b) Philosophical.
(c) Mystical.
(d) Beautiful.

4. Critic Jon Landau dismisses Bangs for his reviews and for his magazine _______ for giving similar albums positive reviews.
(a) Rolling Stone.
(b) L.A. Blues.
(c) Creem.
(d) Astral Weeks.

5. In "Of Pop and Pies and Fun", Bangs defends the band that is known as the _______, in particular front man Iggy Pop.
(a) The Yardbirds.
(b) The Black Crows.
(c) The Animals.
(d) The Stooges.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although the essay begins by talking about the _______, the narrator changes the subject to a group called Count Five.

2. Bangs claims that Count Five released a total of ______ albums and goes on to explain the merits of each.

3. Bangs is using a deception because none of these other Count Five albums existed, and he was comparing himself to a ______ critic.

4. Bangs goes on to review the second album that the Stooges put out called _____ . Bangs admits that the first time he heard the album it sounded like nothing but noise.

5. The second essay in the book is a review of Van Morrison's second album called _______.

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