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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Enter Neal Cassady.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the first excerpted selection of Gregory Corso's in the text?
(a) "Vision at Rotterdam."
(b) "I Am 25."
(c) "Bomb."
(d) "The Mad Yak."

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

4. In what year did Neal Cassady die?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1985.

5. "Kaddish" is a poem about the life and death of whom?
(a) Sarah Ginsberg.
(b) Natalie Ginsberg.
(c) Naomi Ginsberg.
(d) Alexis Ginsberg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What jazz musician does Jack Kerouac write about in "Mexico City Blues"?

2. When did Herbert Huncke meet William S. Burroughs?

3. Whom does Neal Cassady write about visiting in the hospital after a suicide attempt in his letters to Kerouac?

4. Who is Jack Kerouac known as in On the Road?

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

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