This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Portable Beat Reader.

Word

PDF

Take our free The Portable Beat Reader quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

Directions: Click on the correct answer.

Questions 1-5 of 25:

Who is the author of "I Have Given Fair Warning"? (from Some San Francisco Renaissance Poets Part Two)

Diane DiPrima.

Allen Ginsberg.

Philip Whalen.

Philip Lamantia.

Who is the author of "Poet of the Streets"? (from Other Fellow Travelers Part Two)

Jack Micheline.

Tuli Kupferberg.

Diane DiPrima.

Jack Kerouac.

When did Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and LeRoi Jones throw a party for the prison release of Ray Bremser? (from Other Fellow Travelers Part One)

1964.

1952.

1948.

1958.

What does Mailer assert that hipsters are, but are aware of it in "The White Negro"? (from Three Commentators on the Beat Generation)

Intelligent.

Conformed.

Sold out.

Psychopathic.

What kind of drivers does Gary Snyder refer to in "Night Highway Ninety-Nine"? (from Some San Francisco Renaissance Poets Part Two)

Lost.

New York.

B.C.

High.

More summaries and resources for teaching or studying The Portable Beat Reader.

Browse all BookRags Study Guides.

Copyrights

BookRags