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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. Bangs bemoans the turn popular music took towards _______ and politics in the late '60s, preferring instead the earlier sounds of the decade.
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Thought.
(d) Lasciviousness.

2. Bangs spends almost half of the review of the album talking about the song ______, which Bangs believes is about a transsexual man.
(a) Velvet Underground.
(b) T.V. Eye.
(c) Madame George.
(d) Astral Weeks.

3. The old man also tells his grandchildren that _____ was assassinated at a show in 1973 - two years after the article was written.
(a) Jimmy Hendrix.
(b) Jeff Beck.
(c) Eric Clapton.
(d) Jimmy Page

4. Van Morrison's second album was released in _____ and Bangs reports that it became a source of hope for him.
(a) 1963.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1972.

5. 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) T.V. Eye.
(c) L.A. Blues.
(d) Fun House.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bangs argues that _____ 's antics helped to break down the wall between the musician and the listener.

2. According to Bangs, groups should have resisted the urge to become arty and developed the free style used by _____ musicians.

3. Lester Bangs refers to Count Five's album ______ as being their grungiest, and describes the reaction of other critics.

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

5. In "Of Pop and Pies and Fun", Bangs defends the band that is known as the _______, in particular front man Iggy Pop.

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