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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) "Bomb."
(c) "I Am 25."
(d) "The Mad Yak."

2. Who wrote "Sourdough Mountain Lookout"?
(a) Gregory Corso.
(b) Allen Ginsberg.
(c) Jack Kerouac.
(d) Philip Whalen.

3. In what year was John Clellon Holmes born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1926.

4. With whom did Brenda Frazer travel to Mexico City in the 1960s?
(a) Neal Cassady.
(b) Ray Bremser.
(c) Jack Kerouac.
(d) William S. Hunter.

5. When did Herbert Huncke meet William S. Burroughs?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Gregory Corso born?

2. What is the name of the character based on Neal Cassady in Go?

3. Whom does Philip Whalen write of drinking with in "Prose Take-Out Portland 13:ix:58"?

4. Where did the Snyder family move when Gary was two years old?

5. When was Gregory Corso born?

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