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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Creemwork—Frauds, Failures, and Fantasies Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The old man tells his grandchildren that by the end of the 1960s, the Yardbirds had transformed into the band ______.
(a) Fleetwood Mac.
(b) Pink Floyd.
(c) Led Zeppelin.
(d) Rolling Stones.

2. Bangs asserts that the live music sounds similar to the studio music except there are long and pointless ______.
(a) Pauses.
(b) Crowd singing sections.
(c) Introductions to each song.
(d) Solos.

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

4. Bangs praises the song ______ because he believes it reflects a democratic sexual relationship where the man is concerned with giving the woman an orgasm.
(a) Give it to Me.
(b) I Just Sing.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) Wild Thing.

5. Bangs suggests that the genre of rock and roll is naturally ______ and thus musical illiteracy is consistent with rock and roll.
(a) Babyish.
(b) Adult.
(c) Childish.
(d) Adolescent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bangs goes on to review the second album that the Stooges put out called _____ . Bangs admits that the first time he heard the album it sounded like nothing but noise.

2. Bangs bemoans the turn popular music took towards _______ and politics in the late '60s, preferring instead the earlier sounds of the decade.

3. Other critics said of Iggy Pop and the band that the stage show was juvenile and they were musically ______.

4. The band known as the Troggs were responsible for the smash hit ______.

5. The narrator agonizes over buying Count Five's record _____ because it is mediocre but he eventually comes to love it.

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