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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tales of Beatnik Glory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first excerpted selection of Gregory Corso's in the text?
(a) "Vision at Rotterdam."
(b) "The Mad Yak."
(c) "Bomb."
(d) "I Am 25."

2. What excerpt of Gregory Corso's questions what it means to be Beat and if there is even such a thing?
(a) "Song of a Generation."
(b) "Marriage."
(c) "Bomb."
(d) "Variations on a Generation."

3. Whom does Philip Whalen write of drinking with in "Prose Take-Out Portland 13:ix:58"?
(a) Allen Ginsberg.
(b) Jack Kerouac.
(c) Neal Cassady.
(d) Gregory Corso.

4. In what year does William Burroughs Junior go to visit his father in "Tales of Beatnik Glory"?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1970.

5. Where is the city of Rotterdam, cited in Corso's "Vision of Rotterdam"?
(a) France.
(b) Netherlands.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is "Mr. Dullness" likely a reference to in the poem "A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring"?

2. In "Dinners and Nightmares," the author describes mashed potatoes and tomato sauce, which is referred to as _____________.

3. With whom did Brenda Frazer travel to Mexico City in the 1960s?

4. How old was Gary Snyder when he was laid up for an accident for four months?

5. Albion is another name for what?

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