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

Multiple Choice 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.
(a) Russian.
(b) Scandinavian.
(c) Irish.
(d) American.

2. The narrator agonizes over buying Count Five's record _____ because it is mediocre but he eventually comes to love it.
(a) Bangs.
(b) Physical Graffiti.
(c) Carburetor Dung.
(d) Psychotic Reaction.

3. The worst examples of bands that treat their fans poorly Bangs refers to as ______, with James Taylor as the lead person in the group.
(a) I-Rock.
(b) They-Rock.
(c) We-Rock.
(d) You-Rock.

4. Lester Bangs refers to Count Five's album ______ as being their grungiest, and describes the reaction of other critics.
(a) Psychotic Reaction.
(b) Carburetor Dung.
(c) Bangs.
(d) Physical Graffiti.

5. The essay "James Taylor Marked for Death" begins with a discussion about the British band called ______.
(a) The Animals.
(b) The Stooges.
(c) The Troggs.
(d) The Fugs.

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

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

8. Bangs believes that David Bowie's concert performance was an attempt to appropriate ______ culture.
(a) Asian.
(b) Latino.
(c) Black.
(d) Indigenous.

9. Bangs claims that Count Five released a total of ______ albums and goes on to explain the merits of each.
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

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

11. Critic Jon Landau dismisses Bangs for his reviews and for his magazine _______ for giving similar albums positive reviews.
(a) Rolling Stone.
(b) Creem.
(c) L.A. Blues.
(d) Astral Weeks.

12. In the essay "Screwing the System With Dick Clark", Bangs describes his meeting with Dick Clark, host of _______.
(a) American Bandstand.
(b) Dick Van Dyke Show.
(c) American Groovestand.
(d) The Tonight Show.

13. Rock crowds had become convinced that bands were supposed to be objects of ______.
(a) Worship.
(b) Disgust.
(c) Sexual fantasy.
(d) Comedy.

14. In "Chicago at Carnegie Hall, Volumes I,II, III, & IV", Bangs mocks the album as being better as pieces of _____ than a work of music.
(a) Plastic.
(b) Crap.
(c) Scrap metal.
(d) Cardboard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Van Morrison's second album was released in _____ and Bangs reports that it became a source of hope for him.

2. The song _______ is listed on the first half of the Stooges second album which Bangs describes as the better half of the album.

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

4. Bangs considers horror movies to be the equivalent of ______ movies and writes a fake L.A. times article detailing an uprising against the television stations.

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

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