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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blowing It Up, Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rock crowds had become convinced that bands were supposed to be objects of ______.
(a) Disgust.
(b) Worship.
(c) Sexual fantasy.
(d) Comedy.

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

3. Bangs describes another band, _____, that was able to step into using a freestyle approach partly due to the fact that barely knew how to play their instruments.
(a) The Mysterians.
(b) The Stooges.
(c) Question Mark.
(d) The Velvet Underground.

4. Bangs claims that Count Five released a total of ______ albums and goes on to explain the merits of each.
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Seven.

5. The narrator of the story Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung is a ______ year old man explaining rock and roll history to his grandchildren.
(a) Eighty.
(b) Seventy.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Ninety.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The song _______ is listed on the first half of the Stooges second album which Bangs describes as the better half of the album.

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

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

5. Although the essay begins by talking about the _______, the narrator changes the subject to a group called Count Five.

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