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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Unpublishable Part Two and Untitled.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bangs believes that David Bowie's concert performance was an attempt to appropriate ______ culture.
(a) Asian.
(b) Indigenous.
(c) Black.
(d) Latino.

2. Bangs concludes the article by suggesting that "Metal Machine Music" is the most ______ album Reed has made.
(a) Feminine.
(b) Innovative.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Industrial.

3. Bangs spends almost half of the review of the album talking about the song ______, which Bangs believes is about a transsexual man.
(a) Madame George.
(b) Velvet Underground.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) Astral Weeks.

4. 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) Give it to Me.
(c) I Just Sing.
(d) T.V. Eye.

5. Bangs asserts that the live music sounds similar to the studio music except there are long and pointless ______.
(a) Introductions to each song.
(b) Pauses.
(c) Solos.
(d) Crowd singing sections.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bangs describes an incident in ______ during a Stooges concert where Iggy Pop was beaten up by a biker.

2. Bangs concludes the essay by suggesting that ______ are making jokes to their listeners that play off all of their darkest fears and fantasies.

3. The narrator begins the story by talking about how great the music was in the year ______, particularly the Yardbirds.

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

5. The narrator of the story Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung is a ______ year old man explaining rock and roll history to his grandchildren.

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