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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Bangs had written earlier about the Troggs and suggested that they were a ______ band.
(a) Inclusive.
(b) Chauvinist.
(c) Elitist.
(d) Separatist.

4. In writing about the value of old horror movies, Bangs suggests that _____ is just a restriction mean to keep people from enjoying themselves.
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Religion.
(c) Criticism.
(d) Good Taste.

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

6. Bangs bemoans the turn popular music took towards _______ and politics in the late '60s, preferring instead the earlier sounds of the decade.
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Lasciviousness.
(d) Thought.

7. Bangs argues that _____ 's antics helped to break down the wall between the musician and the listener.
(a) Iggy Pop.
(b) Alice Cooper.
(c) Eric Clapton.
(d) Jimmy Page.

8. In the essay "Screwing the System With Dick Clark", Bangs describes his meeting with Dick Clark, host of _______.
(a) American Groovestand.
(b) American Bandstand.
(c) The Tonight Show.
(d) Dick Van Dyke Show.

9. In the second section of the essay, Bangs suggests that some bands turned from simplistic rock into arty bands, including all of the following except ______.
(a) Led Zeppelin.
(b) Question Mark.
(c) The Mysterians.
(d) The Yardbirds.

10. The essay "Johnny Ray's Better _______" is a review of a David Bowie concert.
(a) River.
(b) Cesspool.
(c) Ocean.
(d) Whirlpool.

11. The old man tells his grandchildren that by the end of the 1960s, the Yardbirds had transformed into the band ______.
(a) Fleetwood Mac.
(b) Rolling Stones.
(c) Pink Floyd.
(d) Led Zeppelin.

12. Clark believes that the current generation are very ______ despite their claims towards originality.
(a) Conformist.
(b) Antagonist.
(c) Non-conformist.
(d) Communist.

13. The narrator of the story Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung is a ______ year old man explaining rock and roll history to his grandchildren.
(a) Ninety.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Seventy.

14. _______ claims that they are one of the first truly German bands since World War II.
(a) Luftwaffe.
(b) Stonewerk.
(c) Blitzkrieg.
(d) Kraftwerk.

15. The old man also tells his grandchildren that _____ was assassinated at a show in 1973 - two years after the article was written.
(a) Jeff Beck.
(b) Jimmy Page
(c) Eric Clapton.
(d) Jimmy Hendrix.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lester Bangs refers to Count Five's album ______ as being their grungiest, and describes the reaction of other critics.

2. The article "My Night of Ecstasy With the J. Geils Band" talks about Bangs and the staff of ______ trying to figure out how to cover the J. Geils show.

3. Bangs believes that the Godz third album ________ is a complete descent into acid-rock cliches.

4. In "Of Pop and Pies and Fun", Bangs defends the band that is known as the _______, in particular front man Iggy Pop.

5. Bangs purchases a record by _______ and he says it is so bad that "it gets stars for lousiness".

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