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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. 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 Animals.
(c) The Stooges.
(d) The Black Crows.

2. Bangs is using a deception because none of these other Count Five albums existed, and he was comparing himself to a ______ critic.
(a) Astral Weeks.
(b) Creem.
(c) L.A. Blues.
(d) Rolling Stone.

3. 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) Led Zeppelin.
(b) The Mysterians.
(c) The Yardbirds.
(d) Question Mark.

4. The old man also tells his grandchildren that _____ was assassinated at a show in 1973 - two years after the article was written.
(a) Jimmy Page
(b) Eric Clapton.
(c) Jimmy Hendrix.
(d) Jeff Beck.

5. According to Bangs, groups should have resisted the urge to become arty and developed the free style used by _____ musicians.
(a) Blues.
(b) Classical.
(c) Rock.
(d) Jazz.

Short Answer Questions

1. The old man tells his grandchildren that by the end of the 1960s, the Yardbirds had transformed into the band ______.

2. Bangs spends almost half of the review of the album talking about the song ______, which Bangs believes is about a transsexual man.

3. The Yardbirds were a British Band that launched the musical careers of all of the following guitarists except ______.

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

5. The narrator begins the story by talking about how great the music was in the year ______, particularly the Yardbirds.

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