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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. Bangs bemoans the turn popular music took towards _______ and politics in the late '60s, preferring instead the earlier sounds of the decade.
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Thought.
(c) Lasciviousness.
(d) Spirituality.

2. 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) Carburetor Dung.
(c) Velvet Underground.
(d) L.A. Blues.

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

4. In Bangs' review of the Stooges second album, he talks about the "relentlessly driving" _____, which is in the first half of the album.
(a) T.V. Eye.
(b) L.A. Blues.
(c) Rolling Stone.
(d) Fun House.

5. Lester Bangs compares listening to amazing albums like those produced by Count Five as being similar to a first ______.
(a) Orgasm.
(b) Girlfriend.
(c) Time using drugs.
(d) Bike ride.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bangs suggests that _____ is a dangerous thing because it makes people vulnerable to the universal pain of life.

2. In the second section of the essay, Bangs suggests that some bands turned from simplistic rock into arty bands, including all of the following except ______.

3. The old man also tells his grandchildren that _____ was assassinated at a show in 1973 - two years after the article was written.

4. One group that Bangs felt did use a more freestyle approach was ________, but they were among the few.

5. The narrator agonizes over buying Count Five's record _____ because it is mediocre but he eventually comes to love it.

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