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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Slaying the Children, Burying the Dead, Signs of Life Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Bangs writes the latter half of his interview with Slade in an imitation of a _______ cockney accent.
(a) French.
(b) British.
(c) Spanish.
(d) American.

3. Bangs then reviews James Taylor's album called "_____ Man Dog" and surprisingly defends the album.
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

4. 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) Ninety.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Sixty.

5. Bangs suggests that "Metal Machine Music" has curative properties and may be useful in treating ______.
(a) Colds.
(b) Fevers.
(c) Hangovers.
(d) Headaches.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bangs was at first offended by the Guess Who's most famous song "______ Woman" but then realized that their willingness to offend the audience is what made them great.

2. The old man also tells his grandchildren that _____ was assassinated at a show in 1973 - two years after the article was written.

3. Bangs believes that Laughner bought into a rock culture that celebrates ______, and Bangs subsequently denounces that culture.

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

5. Bangs himself died of drug related causes about _____ years after the essay about Laughner was written.

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