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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Jack Kerouac born?
(a) San Francisco, CA.
(b) San Jose, CA.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) Lowell, MA.

2. "A Supermarket in America" describes Ginsberg grocery shopping with a vision of whom?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Norman Mailer.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Walt Whitman.

3. In the second excerpt from On the Road, where are the two main characters initially?
(a) California.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Nebraska.

4. How old was Neal Cassady when he was first arrested for theft?
(a) 10.
(b) 18.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

5. The Beat Generation started off in what city?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) New York.
(c) Paris.
(d) San Francisco.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was the novel Go published?

3. For whom was Jack Kerouac once a sports writer?

4. In "Visions of Cody," Cody is especially talented at ______________.

5. When did Allen Ginsberg begin attending Columbia University?

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