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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. The song _______ is listed on the first half of the Stooges second album which Bangs describes as the better half of the album.
(a) Velvet Underground.
(b) T.V. Eye.
(c) Carburetor Dung.
(d) L.A. Blues.

2. The second essay in the book is a review of Van Morrison's second album called _______.
(a) Astral Weeks.
(b) T.V. Eye.
(c) Madame George.
(d) Velvet Underground.

3. Lester Bangs compares listening to amazing albums like those produced by Count Five as being similar to a first ______.
(a) Time using drugs.
(b) Orgasm.
(c) Bike ride.
(d) Girlfriend.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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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