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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bangs suggests that once groups reach stardom they begin to treat their fans with ______.
(a) Integrity.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Disregard.

2. 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) Astral Weeks.
(d) Madame George.

3. The worst examples of bands that treat their fans poorly Bangs refers to as ______, with James Taylor as the lead person in the group.
(a) We-Rock.
(b) You-Rock.
(c) I-Rock.
(d) They-Rock.

4. Bangs suggests that the song ______ forced listeners to go out and live life instead of just being passive.
(a) Wild Thing.
(b) I Just Sing.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) Give it to me.

5. Bands describes some of his adolescent ______ exploits as a form of tribute to the power of the Troggs' music.
(a) Political.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Environmental.
(d) Activist.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Bangs suggested that rock bands had become pretentious and therefore deserved to get pied in the face like ______.

4. Rock crowds had become convinced that bands were supposed to be objects of ______.

5. Other critics said of Iggy Pop and the band that the stage show was juvenile and they were musically ______.

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