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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. Although the essay begins by talking about the _______, the narrator changes the subject to a group called Count Five.
(a) Yardbirds.
(b) Led Zeppelin.
(c) Misfits.
(d) Rolling Stones.

2. Van Morrison's second album was released in _____ and Bangs reports that it became a source of hope for him.
(a) 1972.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1968.

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

4. Bangs concludes the essay by suggesting that ______ are making jokes to their listeners that play off all of their darkest fears and fantasies.
(a) Question Mark.
(b) Led Zeppelin.
(c) The Rolling Stones.
(d) The Stooges.

5. Bangs feels that Richard Hell's style of _____ rock is important because he still feels things in a world where most don't.
(a) Glam.
(b) Metal.
(c) Punk.
(d) Pop.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bangs shows his distaste for Bowie's concert by comparing it to a ______ show with black people for props.

2. Bangs discusses Lou Reed's new album called "Metal Machine Music", which is all ______ music.

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

4. Bangs states that on the previous New Year's Eve he met _____ different women and did not have sex with any of them.

5. Bangs reviewed the group Sham 69, a British punk band whose fans were known to be ______.

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