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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the confrontation escalates, Bangs is arrested by a tenant in the building and charged with _____.
(a) Assault.
(b) Battery.
(c) Breaking and Entering.
(d) Drunk and Disorderly conduct.

2. Bangs goes on to review the second album that the Stooges put out called _____ . Bangs admits that the first time he heard the album it sounded like nothing but noise.
(a) Wild Thing.
(b) Fun House.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) L.A. Blues.

3. Bangs admires the Troggs for making innocent _____ songs as well as incredibly sexual music.
(a) Sophisticated.
(b) Political.
(c) Polemic.
(d) Love.

4. The Yardbirds were a British Band that launched the musical careers of all of the following guitarists except ______.
(a) Jimmy Page.
(b) Neil Young.
(c) Eric Clapton.
(d) Jeff Beck.

5. Although the essay begins by talking about the _______, the narrator changes the subject to a group called Count Five.
(a) Rolling Stones.
(b) Led Zeppelin.
(c) Misfits.
(d) Yardbirds.

6. 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) You-Rock.
(c) They-Rock.
(d) I-Rock.

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

8. Bangs describes another band, _____, that was able to step into using a freestyle approach partly due to the fact that barely knew how to play their instruments.
(a) The Velvet Underground.
(b) The Mysterians.
(c) Question Mark.
(d) The Stooges.

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

10. Bangs felt that the Baby Boomer generation was ______, believing their every act was of great importance.
(a) Chauvinistic.
(b) Narcissistic.
(c) Antisocial.
(d) Philanthropic.

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

12. Bangs begins the essay "Do the Godz Speak Esperanto" by discussing ______ records which he believes is the most underground record label in the country.
(a) IBM.
(b) ESP.
(c) RCA.
(d) Columbia.

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

14. Bangs comes to like the song ______, which he first had dismissed as so much noise.
(a) Rolling Stone.
(b) Fun House.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) L.A. Blues.

15. In his write up of the song _____, Bangs fantasizes about the lead singer, Reg Presley, living out the lyrics.
(a) 66-5-4-3-2-1.
(b) I Just Sing.
(c) Wild Thing.
(d) Fugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. ______ is the singer of the Velvet Underground, the band that Bangs suggested was able to use a free style method.

2. Clark believes that _____ rock, which Bangs refers to as fag-rock, is mostly just to shock people.

3. According to Bangs, groups should have resisted the urge to become arty and developed the free style used by _____ musicians.

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

5. 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.

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