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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Plastic.
(c) Crap.
(d) Scrap metal.

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

3. The opening acts for David Bowie's concert included such names as Ava Cherrt and _______.
(a) Stevie Wonder.
(b) Luther Vandross.
(c) Art Tatum.
(d) Herbie Hancock.

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

5. Bangs then reviews James Taylor's album called "_____ Man Dog" and surprisingly defends the album.
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bangs suggests that the genre of rock and roll is naturally ______ and thus musical illiteracy is consistent with rock and roll.

2. Bangs feels that Morrison has a unique talent to take a simple phrase and repeat it until it becomes something ______.

3. Bangs hears the album ______ at a dinner party and it leads to him and others harassing people at a Masons function.

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

5. Clark believes that the current generation are very ______ despite their claims towards originality.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are some of the famous guitarists whose careers were launched by the Yardbirds rock band?

2. What does Bangs believe the reasoning behind Iggy Pop's diving into the audience and other stage antics?

3. Why does Clark believe that he will still be around for years to come, as he says when talking to Bangs?

4. What does Bang argue is the recipe for making rock and roll good again, according to his essay?

5. What does Bangs believe is the reason why The Guess Who are so popular and so effective with their audience?

6. What does Lester Bangs not like about the way that music shifted in the 1960s, according to his essays?

7. What is the assessment of "Fun House" that Bangs makes after listening to the album the first and the second time?

8. What does Bangs believe to be the meaning of the song "Give It To Me" by The Troggs?

9. What does Jon Landau do in response to the way that Lester Bangs writes about music, according to the essay?

10. What does Clark believe about the trend of glam rock when it is discussed with Bangs?

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