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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Creemwork—Frauds, Failures, and Fantasies Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bangs had written earlier about the Troggs and suggested that they were a ______ band.
(a) Separatist.
(b) Elitist.
(c) Inclusive.
(d) Chauvinist.

2. 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) Wild Thing.
(b) I Just Sing.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) Give it to Me.

3. Bangs suggests that the song ______ forced listeners to go out and live life instead of just being passive.
(a) T.V. Eye.
(b) Give it to me.
(c) Wild Thing.
(d) I Just Sing.

4. Bangs suggests that the song called ______ by the Troggs is about a countdown towards sexual penetration.
(a) 66-5-4-3-2-1.
(b) Wild Thing.
(c) I Just Sing.
(d) 8675309.

5. Bangs bemoans the turn popular music took towards _______ and politics in the late '60s, preferring instead the earlier sounds of the decade.
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Thought.
(c) Lasciviousness.
(d) Spirituality.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Bangs' review of the Stooges second album, he talks about the "relentlessly driving" _____, which is in the first half of the album.

4. Bangs begins the essay "John Coltrane Lives" by describing a recent practice session with his band and discovering a _______ in the apartment, reminding him of Coltrane.

5. In "Chicago at Carnegie Hall, Volumes I,II, III, & IV", Bangs mocks the album as being better as pieces of _____ than a work of music.

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