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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tales of Beatnik Glory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Rotterdam bombed by the Nazis?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1940.

2. What excerpt of Gregory Corso's questions what it means to be Beat and if there is even such a thing?
(a) "Song of a Generation."
(b) "Bomb."
(c) "Variations on a Generation."
(d) "Marriage."

3. In what year was John Clellon Holmes born?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1926.

4. When did Herbert Huncke meet William S. Burroughs?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1944.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the character based on Neal Cassady in Go?

2. Who is a former girlfriend of Jack Kerouac and wrote a book called "Minor Characters" about some of the lesser known people in Beat circles?

3. What is railed against in the poem "A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring"?

4. What is the first excerpted selection of Gregory Corso's in the text?

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

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