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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ginsberg believes that people should focus on ________________.
(a) Family.
(b) Charity.
(c) How they treat each other.
(d) God.

2. What was Ginsberg's first name?
(a) Carl.
(b) Allen.
(c) Jack.
(d) Robert.

3. Which adjective best describes Ginsberg?
(a) Perplexed.
(b) Distraught.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Rude.

4. Which first experience is referred to by Ginsberg?
(a) Self-controlled.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Academic.
(d) Metaphysical.

5. The friend equates what to the item?
(a) Holiness.
(b) Glory.
(c) Birth.
(d) Sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ginsberg spent a lot of time in which one of the following cities?

2. Ginsberg believed that his generation was being destroyed by which of the following?

3. Which of the following was very important to Ginsberg?

4. What item does Ginsberg touch in the dream?

5. HOWL can be seen as a plea for ______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Ginsberg's relationship to Carl Solomon?

2. What kind of experiences took place in HOWL? To what does Williams compare those experiences?

3. What does Ginsberg say about the quality of the soul? Where does it fit into the theme?

4. What is Ginsberg's first encounter with Whitman?

5. Why did Ginsberg experience a great deal of confusion and distress during his adolescence?

6. How does the poet speak about the people of his generation?

7. Discuss Ginsberg's view of creative people who had to go to work in order to survive.

8. According to Ginsberg, what are some of the things that keep America interesting?

9. What common object is spotted by Kerouac? Where? What is Ginsberg's reaction?

10. Where does Ginsberg imagine he sees Whitman just before they go separate ways?

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