The Portable Beat Reader Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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The Portable Beat Reader Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Enter Neal Cassady.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What university did William S. Burroughs attend?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Yale.
(c) Rutgers.
(d) Harvard.

2. Where was Gregory Corso born?
(a) Boston, MA.
(b) Portland, OR.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) Sacramento, CA.

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

4. In what year did Gregory Corso meet Allen Ginsberg?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1945.

5. Where did Carl Soloman meet Allen Ginsberg?
(a) A zoo.
(b) Prison.
(c) An art opening.
(d) A mental institution.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Visions of Cody," Cody is especially talented at ______________.

2. For whom was Jack Kerouac once a sports writer?

3. In "Sunflower Sutra," Ginsberg writes that a sunflower is trying to become a _______________.

4. What jazz musician does Jack Kerouac write about in "Mexico City Blues"?

5. When did Neal Cassady's parents divorce?

(see the answer key)

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