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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Slaying the Children, Burying the Dead, Signs of Life Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his write up of the song _____, Bangs fantasizes about the lead singer, Reg Presley, living out the lyrics.
(a) Wild Thing.
(b) I Just Sing.
(c) Fugs.
(d) 66-5-4-3-2-1.

2. Bangs believes that the Godz third album ________ is a complete descent into acid-rock cliches.
(a) The Final Testament.
(b) The Third Eye.
(c) The Old Testament.
(d) The Third Testament.

3. Bands describes some of his adolescent ______ exploits as a form of tribute to the power of the Troggs' music.
(a) Environmental.
(b) Political.
(c) Sexual.
(d) Activist.

4. When Bangs takes the instrument home with him and attempts to play it, a dispute with ______ erupts.
(a) John Coltrane.
(b) His girlfriend.
(c) The landlady.
(d) A neighbor.

5. Bangs hears the album ______ at a dinner party and it leads to him and others harassing people at a Masons function.
(a) Station to Station.
(b) Kraftwerk.
(c) Sladest.
(d) Slade.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bangs concludes that Iggy Pop's performances are the most ______ things he has seen and also the most terrifying.

2. Bangs asserts that Reed's music is about ______, which Reed denies. They also get into an argument about stimulants.

3. Other critics said of Iggy Pop and the band that the stage show was juvenile and they were musically ______.

4. Bangs believes that David Bowie's concert performance was an attempt to appropriate ______ culture.

5. Clark believes that _____ rock, which Bangs refers to as fag-rock, is mostly just to shock people.

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