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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom does Allen Ginsberg write from a mental institution in "Howl"?
(a) Mark Patterson.
(b) Neal Cassady.
(c) Jack Kerouac.
(d) Carl Solomon.

3. In what year was Allen Ginsberg born?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1935.

4. What event is one of the central focuses of "America"?
(a) The Cold War.
(b) World War III.
(c) The Spanish War.
(d) The Civil War.

5. Where was Neal Cassady born?
(a) Los Angeles, NY.
(b) Salt Lake City, UT.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) Denver, CO.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Amiri Baraka's birth name?

2. "Kaddish" is a poem about the life and death of whom?

3. Where was Ray Bremser born?

4. Where did the Six Gallery reading take place?

5. In "Sunflower Sutra," Ginsberg writes that a sunflower is trying to become a _______________.

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