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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. What is Jack Kerouac's fictionalized name in the novel Go?
(a) Hart Kennedy.
(b) Paul Hobbes.
(c) Gene Pasternak.
(d) Albert Ancke.

2. What kind of drivers does Gary Snyder refer to in "Night Highway Ninety-Nine"?
(a) Lost.
(b) B.C.
(c) High.
(d) New York.

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

4. When was Philip Lamantia born?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1927.

5. Whom does Philip Whalen write of drinking with in "Prose Take-Out Portland 13:ix:58"?
(a) Neal Cassady.
(b) Jack Kerouac.
(c) Gregory Corso.
(d) Allen Ginsberg.

Short Answer Questions

1. The character "Elsie John" in the poem by Herbert Huncke is a __________.

2. For what Los Angeles paper did Charles Bukowski write a weekly column?

3. Who is "Mr. Dullness" likely a reference to in the poem "A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring"?

4. Herbert Huncke introduced William S. Burroughs to _____________.

5. In what year did Gregory Corso meet Allen Ginsberg?

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