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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 spends almost half of the review of the album talking about the song ______, which Bangs believes is about a transsexual man.
(a) Madame George.
(b) T.V. Eye.
(c) Astral Weeks.
(d) Velvet Underground.

2. 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) ESP.
(c) Columbia.
(d) RCA.

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

4. Bangs suggested that rock bands had become pretentious and therefore deserved to get pied in the face like ______.
(a) Eric Clapton.
(b) Alice Cooper.
(c) Iggy Pop.
(d) Jimmy Page.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Bands describes some of his adolescent ______ exploits as a form of tribute to the power of the Troggs' music.

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

5. Bangs argues that in order to make rock and roll good again, musicians have to stop trying to respect ______ styles.

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