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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Neal Cassady's unfinished autobiography?
(a) "The Final Third."
(b) "The First Third."
(c) "The Fast Years."
(d) "The Kesey Bus."

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

3. When was Gregory Corso born?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1940.

4. What jazz musician does Jack Kerouac write about in "Mexico City Blues"?
(a) Louis Armstrong.
(b) Charlie Parker.
(c) Satchmo.
(d) Thelonius Monk.

5. In what year was the novel Go published?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Allen Ginsberg grow up?

2. What is Allen Ginsberg's most famous work?

3. How old was Neal Cassady when his parents divorced?

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

5. What business did Neal Cassady's father open in Los Angeles, CA?

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