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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 narrator begins the story by talking about how great the music was in the year ______, particularly the Yardbirds.
(a) 1970.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1965.

2. Bangs suggests that _____ is a dangerous thing because it makes people vulnerable to the universal pain of life.
(a) Love.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Music.

3. Other critics said of Iggy Pop and the band that the stage show was juvenile and they were musically ______.
(a) Simplistic.
(b) Complicated.
(c) Visionary.
(d) Talented.

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

5. 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 ______.
(a) The Mysterians.
(b) The Yardbirds.
(c) Led Zeppelin.
(d) Question Mark.

Short Answer Questions

1. Van Morrison's second album was released in _____ and Bangs reports that it became a source of hope for him.

2. Bangs describes the fact that Iggy Pop transitioned from an imitation of______ on the last album to a more refined and unique form.

3. The song _______ is listed on the first half of the Stooges second album which Bangs describes as the better half of the album.

4. Bangs suggests that the music of ______ was a natural reaction to the chaos of the late 1960s.

5. The narrator of the story Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung is a ______ year old man explaining rock and roll history to his grandchildren.

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