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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. Bangs hears the album ______ at a dinner party and it leads to him and others harassing people at a Masons function.
(a) Sladest.
(b) Slade.
(c) Kraftwerk.
(d) Station to Station.

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

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

4. According to Bangs, groups should have resisted the urge to become arty and developed the free style used by _____ musicians.
(a) Rock.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Classical.
(d) Blues.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bands describes some of his adolescent ______ exploits as a form of tribute to the power of the Troggs' music.

3. Lester Bangs compares listening to amazing albums like those produced by Count Five as being similar to a first ______.

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

5. Bangs states that "Station to Station" is ______ 's finest album yet because even if the lyrics are pretentious, the guitar is amazing.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Bangs believe about the show of David Bowie when he goes to promote it in his work?

5. Why does Bangs speak so highly of the Van Morrison album, "Astral Weeks," in his essay?

6. From whom does Kraftwerk say that they take their inspiration, according to their conversation with Bangs?

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

8. What does Bangs believe is the benefit of not knowing how to play an instrument, as he notes the Stooges were unable to do at first?

9. Why does Bangs recommend the album "White Witch", even though it's difficult to tell whether he is being serious or not in this essay?

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

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