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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 Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bangs had written earlier about the Troggs and suggested that they were a ______ band.
(a) Inclusive.
(b) Chauvinist.
(c) Separatist.
(d) Elitist.

2. Bangs believes that the album "Metal Machine Music" is the ultimate evolution of using _______.
(a) Feedback.
(b) Machines.
(c) Acoustic instruments.
(d) High frequencies.

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

4. One group that Bangs felt did use a more freestyle approach was ________, but they were among the few.
(a) The Velvet Underground.
(b) The Mysterians.
(c) Led Zeppelin.
(d) Question Mark.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Once on tour with The Clash, Bangs gets into a food fight and gets his hair set on fire by _______.

2. Bangs praises the song ______ because he believes it reflects a democratic sexual relationship where the man is concerned with giving the woman an orgasm.

3. The Yardbirds were a British Band that launched the musical careers of all of the following guitarists except ______.

4. Bangs suggests that "Metal Machine Music" could also be used as a deterrent for _______.

5. The old man tells his grandchildren that by the end of the 1960s, the Yardbirds had transformed into the band ______.

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