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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 Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bangs concludes the article suggesting that everyone likes Lou Reed's ______ music.
(a) Inspired.
(b) Wonderful.
(c) Terrible.
(d) Hypnotic.

2. Bangs recounted an incident in which he referred to a band as _______ in front of a black couple.
(a) Africans.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Niggers.
(d) Untalented.

3. Clark believes that _____ rock, which Bangs refers to as fag-rock, is mostly just to shock people.
(a) Bubblegum.
(b) Hard.
(c) Glam.
(d) Pop.

4. Bangs believes that Laughner bought into a rock culture that celebrates ______, and Bangs subsequently denounces that culture.
(a) Death.
(b) Infidelity.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Drugs.

5. Bangs suggested that rock bands had become pretentious and therefore deserved to get pied in the face like ______.
(a) Eric Clapton.
(b) Iggy Pop.
(c) Jimmy Page.
(d) Alice Cooper.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Bangs suggests that _____ is a dangerous thing because it makes people vulnerable to the universal pain of life.

4. In the essay "Screwing the System With Dick Clark", Bangs describes his meeting with Dick Clark, host of _______.

5. Bangs had written earlier about the Troggs and suggested that they were a ______ band.

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