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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bangs hears the album ______ at a dinner party and it leads to him and others harassing people at a Masons function.
(a) Sladest.
(b) Kraftwerk.
(c) Station to Station.
(d) Slade.

2. The Yardbirds were a British Band that launched the musical careers of all of the following guitarists except ______.
(a) Eric Clapton.
(b) Jimmy Page.
(c) Neil Young.
(d) Jeff Beck.

3. In his write up of the song _____, Bangs fantasizes about the lead singer, Reg Presley, living out the lyrics.
(a) Fugs.
(b) Wild Thing.
(c) 66-5-4-3-2-1.
(d) I Just Sing.

4. Bangs concludes his review of Barry White by comparing White's songs to ______.
(a) Incest.
(b) Rape.
(c) Love.
(d) Joy.

5. 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 Velvet Underground.
(c) The Stooges.
(d) Question Mark.

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

7. In the essay "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up ______", Bangs complains that television stations do not play enough horror films.
(a) Vampires.
(b) Deatheaters.
(c) Zombies.
(d) Werewolves.

8. Bangs suggests that the music of ______ was a natural reaction to the chaos of the late 1960s.
(a) The Black Crows.
(b) The Yardbirds.
(c) The Animals.
(d) The Stooges.

9. Bangs also claims that the Troggs got their name from a group of ______ youth who were living in caves at the time of the band's formation.
(a) Irish.
(b) American.
(c) French.
(d) British.

10. Bangs suggests that the song called ______ by the Troggs is about a countdown towards sexual penetration.
(a) Wild Thing.
(b) 66-5-4-3-2-1.
(c) 8675309.
(d) I Just Sing.

11. In reviewing Barry White's new album, Bangs states that White has found yet another way to sing about _____.
(a) Politics.
(b) Love.
(c) The Earth.
(d) Hate.

12. Bangs suggested that rock bands had become pretentious and therefore deserved to get pied in the face like ______.
(a) Jimmy Page.
(b) Iggy Pop.
(c) Alice Cooper.
(d) Eric Clapton.

13. Bangs argues that in order to make rock and roll good again, musicians have to stop trying to respect ______ styles.
(a) Older.
(b) Blues.
(c) Younger.
(d) Jazz.

14. The song _______ is listed on the first half of the Stooges second album which Bangs describes as the better half of the album.
(a) T.V. Eye.
(b) Carburetor Dung.
(c) Velvet Underground.
(d) L.A. Blues.

15. ______ is the singer of the Velvet Underground, the band that Bangs suggested was able to use a free style method.
(a) Iggy Pop.
(b) Lou Reed.
(c) Mick Jagger.
(d) Bob Dylan.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the confrontation escalates, Bangs is arrested by a tenant in the building and charged with _____.

2. Bangs spends almost half of the review of the album talking about the song ______, which Bangs believes is about a transsexual man.

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

4. Bangs asserts that "the Guess Who is God" in his essay "The Guess Who: Live at the _____".

5. Bangs suggests that the song ______ forced listeners to go out and live life instead of just being passive.

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