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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Three Commentators on the Beat Generation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the useful functions that the Beat Generation helped the progression of, according to "The Game of the Name"?
(a) Sexual revolution.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Racial integration.
(d) Women's rights.

2. The poem "The Night Is a Space of White Marble" describes a wild experience in __________.
(a) Mexico.
(b) Canada.
(c) New York.
(d) Californa.

3. Where was Michael McClure born?
(a) Ft. Wayne, Kentucky.
(b) Marysville, Kansas.
(c) Jackson, Mississippi.
(d) Little Rock, Arkansas.

4. What jazz musician does Jack Kerouac write about in "Mexico City Blues"?
(a) Charlie Parker.
(b) Thelonius Monk.
(c) Satchmo.
(d) Louis Armstrong.

5. According to Mailer in "The White Negro," the ultimate morality for the hipster is to do ________.
(a) Everything all at once.
(b) What he wants when he wants to do it.
(c) Whatever he can't do.
(d) Anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "I Have Given Fair Warning"?

2. Who is the author of the poem "A Berry Feast"?

3. Where did Frank O'Hara grow up?

4. Where did the Six Gallery reading take place?

5. What does Mailer assert that hipsters are, but are aware of it in "The White Negro"?

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