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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. The narrator agonizes over buying Count Five's record _____ because it is mediocre but he eventually comes to love it.
(a) Carburetor Dung.
(b) Physical Graffiti.
(c) Psychotic Reaction.
(d) Bangs.

2. Bangs suggests that the music of ______ was a natural reaction to the chaos of the late 1960s.
(a) The Animals.
(b) The Yardbirds.
(c) The Stooges.
(d) The Black Crows.

3. In an excerpt from "The Scorn Papers", Bangs takes issue with The Village Eye, which credited Richard Hell and John Holmstrom with the invention of ______.
(a) Industrial.
(b) Pop.
(c) Glam.
(d) Punk.

4. Bangs suggests that the song called ______ by the Troggs is about a countdown towards sexual penetration.
(a) Wild Thing.
(b) I Just Sing.
(c) 66-5-4-3-2-1.
(d) 8675309.

5. The woman comes to realize at some point that she feels more like a ______ than a lover in their relationship.
(a) Mother.
(b) Daughter.
(c) Friend.
(d) Sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "New Year's Eve", Bangs asserts that the holiday raises expectations for the future to an unreasonable level and the night is overall ______.

2. The excerpt from "Maggie May" is a fictional piece that was inspired by the song written by ______.

3. Bands describes some of his adolescent ______ exploits as a form of tribute to the power of the Troggs' music.

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

5. Bangs begins the essay "Do the Godz Speak Esperanto" by discussing ______ records which he believes is the most underground record label in the country.

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