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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In reviewing Barry White's new album, Bangs states that White has found yet another way to sing about _____.
(a) Hate.
(b) Politics.
(c) Love.
(d) The Earth.

2. Bangs suggests in "Kraftwerkfeature" that the natural progression of rock and roll is to turn over to ________.
(a) Drums.
(b) Machines.
(c) Animals.
(d) Acoustic.

3. Bangs argues that in order to make rock and roll good again, musicians have to stop trying to respect ______ styles.
(a) Blues.
(b) Older.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Younger.

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

5. When Bangs takes the instrument home with him and attempts to play it, a dispute with ______ erupts.
(a) John Coltrane.
(b) The landlady.
(c) His girlfriend.
(d) A neighbor.

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

7. In "Of Pop and Pies and Fun", Bangs defends the band that is known as the _______, in particular front man Iggy Pop.
(a) The Stooges.
(b) The Yardbirds.
(c) The Black Crows.
(d) The Animals.

8. Bangs writes the latter half of his interview with Slade in an imitation of a _______ cockney accent.
(a) French.
(b) British.
(c) American.
(d) Spanish.

9. Bangs claims that Count Five released a total of ______ albums and goes on to explain the merits of each.
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

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

11. Bangs suggests that once groups reach stardom they begin to treat their fans with ______.
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Integrity.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Disregard.

12. Bangs considers horror movies to be the equivalent of ______ movies and writes a fake L.A. times article detailing an uprising against the television stations.
(a) Rock and Roll.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Classical.
(d) Blues.

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

14. Dick Clark tells Bangs that he will be around for a long time precisely because he promotes ______ music.
(a) Glam.
(b) Good.
(c) Popular.
(d) Bad.

15. In his writing, Bangs fantasizes about murdering ______ because he is so self-absorbed.
(a) James Taylor.
(b) Reg Presley.
(c) Elvis Presley.
(d) Bob Dylan.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. The ______ seize the television stations and play all manner of different content, and one station in LA tries to play every movie ever made.

3. Critic Jon Landau dismisses Bangs for his reviews and for his magazine _______ for giving similar albums positive reviews.

4. The worst examples of bands that treat their fans poorly Bangs refers to as ______, with James Taylor as the lead person in the group.

5. Bangs suggested that rock bands had become pretentious and therefore deserved to get pied in the face like ______.

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