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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 begins the essay "Do the Godz Speak Esperanto" by discussing ______ records which he believes is the most underground record label in the country.
(a) IBM.
(b) RCA.
(c) Columbia.
(d) ESP.

2. The band known as the Troggs were responsible for the smash hit ______.
(a) Marked for Death.
(b) L.A. Blues.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) Wild Thing.

3. Bangs comes to like the song ______, which he first had dismissed as so much noise.
(a) Fun House.
(b) Rolling Stone.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) L.A. Blues.

4. Bangs suggests that the music of ______ was a natural reaction to the chaos of the late 1960s.
(a) The Black Crows.
(b) The Stooges.
(c) The Animals.
(d) The Yardbirds.

5. Bangs describes the fact that Iggy Pop transitioned from an imitation of______ on the last album to a more refined and unique form.
(a) Robert Plant.
(b) Lou Reed.
(c) Paul McCartney.
(d) Mick Jagger.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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