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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 narrator agonizes over buying Count Five's record _____ because it is mediocre but he eventually comes to love it.
(a) Physical Graffiti.
(b) Bangs.
(c) Carburetor Dung.
(d) Psychotic Reaction.

2. In his writing, Bangs fantasizes about murdering ______ because he is so self-absorbed.
(a) James Taylor.
(b) Reg Presley.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Elvis Presley.

3. Van Morrison's second album was released in _____ and Bangs reports that it became a source of hope for him.
(a) 1968.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1963.

4. Bangs purchases a record by _______ and he says it is so bad that "it gets stars for lousiness".
(a) The Legendz.
(b) The Starz.
(c) The Heroz.
(d) The Godz.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The old man also tells his grandchildren that _____ was assassinated at a show in 1973 - two years after the article was written.

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.

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

4. Bangs also claims that the Troggs got their name from a group of ______ youth who were living in caves at the time of the band's formation.

5. Bangs comes to like the song ______, which he first had dismissed as so much noise.

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