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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The worst examples of bands that treat their fans poorly Bangs refers to as ______, with James Taylor as the lead person in the group.
(a) We-Rock.
(b) I-Rock.
(c) You-Rock.
(d) They-Rock.

4. Bangs also claims that the Troggs got their name from a group of ______ youth who were living in caves at the time of the band's formation.
(a) American.
(b) Irish.
(c) French.
(d) British.

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

6. Bangs suggests that the genre of rock and roll is naturally ______ and thus musical illiteracy is consistent with rock and roll.
(a) Childish.
(b) Adult.
(c) Adolescent.
(d) Babyish.

7. Bangs suggests that the song ______ forced listeners to go out and live life instead of just being passive.
(a) Give it to me.
(b) T.V. Eye.
(c) Wild Thing.
(d) I Just Sing.

8. The song _______ is listed on the first half of the Stooges second album which Bangs describes as the better half of the album.
(a) Carburetor Dung.
(b) T.V. Eye.
(c) Velvet Underground.
(d) L.A. Blues.

9. Bangs finds the lyrics on Jethro Tull's new album "Thick as a _____" to be self -righteous.
(a) Block.
(b) Slab.
(c) Stick.
(d) Brick.

10. Bangs is using a deception because none of these other Count Five albums existed, and he was comparing himself to a ______ critic.
(a) Creem.
(b) Astral Weeks.
(c) Rolling Stone.
(d) L.A. Blues.

11. The band known as the Troggs were responsible for the smash hit ______.
(a) Marked for Death.
(b) L.A. Blues.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) Wild Thing.

12. Bangs states that "Station to Station" is ______ 's finest album yet because even if the lyrics are pretentious, the guitar is amazing.
(a) Luther Vandross.
(b) David Bowie.
(c) Barry White.
(d) Blitzkrieg.

13. In "Chicago at Carnegie Hall, Volumes I,II, III, & IV", Bangs mocks the album as being better as pieces of _____ than a work of music.
(a) Plastic.
(b) Cardboard.
(c) Scrap metal.
(d) Crap.

14. Rock crowds had become convinced that bands were supposed to be objects of ______.
(a) Comedy.
(b) Disgust.
(c) Worship.
(d) Sexual fantasy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The essay "James Taylor Marked for Death" begins with a discussion about the British band called ______.

2. When Bangs takes the instrument home with him and attempts to play it, a dispute with ______ erupts.

3. The essay titled "____ Witch" recommends the album because the band are all sexually frustrated "dorks".

4. Although the essay begins by talking about the _______, the narrator changes the subject to a group called Count Five.

5. Bangs claims that Count Five released a total of ______ albums and goes on to explain the merits of each.

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