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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Other critics said of Iggy Pop and the band that the stage show was juvenile and they were musically ______.
(a) Talented.
(b) Visionary.
(c) Simplistic.
(d) Complicated.

2. In the essay "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up ______", Bangs complains that television stations do not play enough horror films.
(a) Vampires.
(b) Werewolves.
(c) Deatheaters.
(d) Zombies.

3. Bangs was at first offended by the Guess Who's most famous song "______ Woman" but then realized that their willingness to offend the audience is what made them great.
(a) American.
(b) Irish.
(c) Scandinavian.
(d) Russian.

4. Lester Bangs compares listening to amazing albums like those produced by Count Five as being similar to a first ______.
(a) Orgasm.
(b) Bike ride.
(c) Time using drugs.
(d) Girlfriend.

5. 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) Good Taste.
(c) Religion.
(d) Criticism.

6. Bangs purchases a record by _______ and he says it is so bad that "it gets stars for lousiness".
(a) The Legendz.
(b) The Starz.
(c) The Heroz.
(d) The Godz.

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

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

9. 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) Lasciviousness.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Thought.

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

11. 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) ESP.
(b) RCA.
(c) Columbia.
(d) IBM.

12. Bangs spends almost half of the review of the album talking about the song ______, which Bangs believes is about a transsexual man.
(a) Velvet Underground.
(b) Astral Weeks.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) Madame George.

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

14. Bands describes some of his adolescent ______ exploits as a form of tribute to the power of the Troggs' music.
(a) Political.
(b) Environmental.
(c) Activist.
(d) Sexual.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Bangs' review of the Stooges second album, he talks about the "relentlessly driving" _____, which is in the first half of the album.

3. Bangs concludes his review of Barry White by comparing White's songs to ______.

4. The narrator of the story Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung is a ______ year old man explaining rock and roll history to his grandchildren.

5. Bangs then reviews James Taylor's album called "_____ Man Dog" and surprisingly defends the album.

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