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

2. Lester Bangs refers to Count Five's album ______ as being their grungiest, and describes the reaction of other critics.
(a) Physical Graffiti.
(b) Psychotic Reaction.
(c) Bangs.
(d) Carburetor Dung.

3. The Yardbirds were a British Band that launched the musical careers of all of the following guitarists except ______.
(a) Jeff Beck.
(b) Eric Clapton.
(c) Jimmy Page.
(d) Neil Young.

4. Bangs spends almost half of the review of the album talking about the song ______, which Bangs believes is about a transsexual man.
(a) T.V. Eye.
(b) Velvet Underground.
(c) Madame George.
(d) Astral Weeks.

5. The old man tells his grandchildren that by the end of the 1960s, the Yardbirds had transformed into the band ______.
(a) Led Zeppelin.
(b) Pink Floyd.
(c) Fleetwood Mac.
(d) Rolling Stones.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Of Pop and Pies and Fun", Bangs defends the band that is known as the _______, in particular front man Iggy Pop.

2. According to Bangs, groups should have resisted the urge to become arty and developed the free style used by _____ musicians.

3. Bangs argues that _____ 's antics helped to break down the wall between the musician and the listener.

4. In Bangs' review of the Stooges second album, he talks about the "relentlessly driving" _____, which is in the first half of the album.

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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