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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 the genre of rock and roll is naturally ______ and thus musical illiteracy is consistent with rock and roll.
(a) Babyish.
(b) Childish.
(c) Adolescent.
(d) Adult.

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

3. Bangs admires the Troggs for making innocent _____ songs as well as incredibly sexual music.
(a) Political.
(b) Polemic.
(c) Love.
(d) Sophisticated.

4. The essay "James Taylor Marked for Death" begins with a discussion about the British band called ______.
(a) The Stooges.
(b) The Troggs.
(c) The Animals.
(d) The Fugs.

5. Rock crowds had become convinced that bands were supposed to be objects of ______.
(a) Comedy.
(b) Worship.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Sexual fantasy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lester Bangs compares listening to amazing albums like those produced by Count Five as being similar to a first ______.

2. The band known as the Troggs were responsible for the smash hit ______.

3. The band known as the Troggs derived their name from the word ______ which means "cavemen".

4. Bangs purchases a record by _______ and he says it is so bad that "it gets stars for lousiness".

5. Bangs feels that Morrison has a unique talent to take a simple phrase and repeat it until it becomes something ______.

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