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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) L.A. Blues.
(b) Velvet Underground.
(c) Carburetor Dung.
(d) T.V. Eye.

2. The old man also tells his grandchildren that _____ was assassinated at a show in 1973 - two years after the article was written.
(a) Jimmy Page
(b) Jimmy Hendrix.
(c) Jeff Beck.
(d) Eric Clapton.

3. In "Of Pop and Pies and Fun", Bangs defends the band that is known as the _______, in particular front man Iggy Pop.
(a) The Stooges.
(b) The Black Crows.
(c) The Yardbirds.
(d) The Animals.

4. Bangs praises the song ______ because he believes it reflects a democratic sexual relationship where the man is concerned with giving the woman an orgasm.
(a) I Just Sing.
(b) Give it to Me.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) Wild Thing.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The narrator agonizes over buying Count Five's record _____ because it is mediocre but he eventually comes to love it.

4. Bangs is using a deception because none of these other Count Five albums existed, and he was comparing himself to a ______ critic.

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

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