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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. The old man tells his grandchildren that by the end of the 1960s, the Yardbirds had transformed into the band ______.
(a) Led Zeppelin.
(b) Pink Floyd.
(c) Fleetwood Mac.
(d) Rolling Stones.

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

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

4. Rock crowds had become convinced that bands were supposed to be objects of ______.
(a) Disgust.
(b) Comedy.
(c) Sexual fantasy.
(d) Worship.

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.
(a) Scrap metal.
(b) Cardboard.
(c) Plastic.
(d) Crap.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bangs argues that "Keep the Faith" could be used to make people immune from _____ torture and brainwashing.

2. Bangs suggests that the genre of rock and roll is naturally ______ and thus musical illiteracy is consistent with rock and roll.

3. Lester Bangs compares listening to amazing albums like those produced by Count Five as being similar to a first ______.

4. The second essay in the book is a review of Van Morrison's second album called _______.

5. The Yardbirds were a British Band that launched the musical careers of all of the following guitarists except ______.

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