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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Other Fellow Travelers Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The character "Elsie John" in the poem by Herbert Huncke is a __________.
(a) Housewife.
(b) Zoologist.
(c) Hermaphrodite.
(d) Fisherman.

2. Where was Jack Kerouac born?
(a) San Francisco, CA.
(b) New York, NY.
(c) Lowell, MA.
(d) San Jose, CA.

3. What was Amiri Baraka's birth name?
(a) Leroy James.
(b) LeRoi Jones.
(c) Marcus Frances.
(d) Allen Smith.

4. What is the name of the West Coast literary revolution which was heralded largely by the Six Gallery reading?
(a) San Francisco Renaissance.
(b) West Coast School of Poetry.
(c) San Francisco Six.
(d) California Renaissance.

5. Which poem of Amiri Baraka's describes the black music scene in Newark in the early 1960s?
(a) "Three Laments."
(b) "Way Out West."
(c) "In Memory of Radio."
(d) "The Screamers."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Lew Welch born?

2. What was the name of Gary Snyder's father?

3. Where is the city of Rotterdam, cited in Corso's "Vision of Rotterdam"?

4. Where did the Six Gallery reading take place?

5. In which song does Bob Dylan write about trying to get his piano fixed by a lazy, unionized piano tuner?

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