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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Unpublishable Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Critic Jon Landau dismisses Bangs for his reviews and for his magazine _______ for giving similar albums positive reviews.
(a) Astral Weeks.
(b) Creem.
(c) Rolling Stone.
(d) L.A. Blues.

3. The band known as the Troggs were responsible for the smash hit ______.
(a) L.A. Blues.
(b) Marked for Death.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) Wild Thing.

4. Bangs considers horror movies to be the equivalent of ______ movies and writes a fake L.A. times article detailing an uprising against the television stations.
(a) Classical.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Blues.
(d) Rock and Roll.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the confrontation escalates, Bangs is arrested by a tenant in the building and charged with _____.

2. Rock crowds had become convinced that bands were supposed to be objects of ______.

3. Bangs suggested that rock bands had become pretentious and therefore deserved to get pied in the face like ______.

4. In the essay "The White Noise Supremacists", Bangs tackles the subject of ______ in punk music.

5. In one of the fragments, Bangs writes to convince himself that he is not yet old at the age of _______.

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