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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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) French.
(c) British.
(d) Irish.

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

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

6. 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) Cardboard.
(b) Scrap metal.
(c) Plastic.
(d) Crap.

7. The second essay in the book is a review of Van Morrison's second album called _______.
(a) Velvet Underground.
(b) Astral Weeks.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) Madame George.

8. The essay titled "____ Witch" recommends the album because the band are all sexually frustrated "dorks".
(a) White.
(b) Purple.
(c) Green.
(d) Black.

9. During the interview with J. Geils, the band invites Bangs to write ______ as they play an encore.
(a) Backstage.
(b) In the front row.
(c) On a guitar.
(d) On stage.

10. The narrator begins the story by talking about how great the music was in the year ______, particularly the Yardbirds.
(a) 1970.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1965.

11. Bangs concludes the essay by suggesting that ______ are making jokes to their listeners that play off all of their darkest fears and fantasies.
(a) The Rolling Stones.
(b) Question Mark.
(c) Led Zeppelin.
(d) The Stooges.

12. Bangs believes that the Godz third album ________ is a complete descent into acid-rock cliches.
(a) The Third Eye.
(b) The Third Testament.
(c) The Final Testament.
(d) The Old Testament.

13. In Bangs' review of the Stooges second album, he talks about the "relentlessly driving" _____, which is in the first half of the album.
(a) Rolling Stone.
(b) L.A. Blues.
(c) Fun House.
(d) T.V. Eye.

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

15. Clark believes that _____ rock, which Bangs refers to as fag-rock, is mostly just to shock people.
(a) Pop.
(b) Glam.
(c) Hard.
(d) Bubblegum.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bangs suggests that _____ is a dangerous thing because it makes people vulnerable to the universal pain of life.

3. In his writing, Bangs fantasizes about murdering ______ because he is so self-absorbed.

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 suggests that the song called ______ by the Troggs is about a countdown towards sexual penetration.

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