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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Lew Welch born?
(a) Phoenix, AZ.
(b) Los Angeles, CA.
(c) Lexington, KY.
(d) New York, NY.

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

3. Where is Amiri Baraka from?
(a) Cleveland, Mississippi.
(b) Newark, New Jersey.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Sacramento, California.

4. In "Sunflower Sutra," Ginsberg writes that a sunflower is trying to become a _______________.
(a) Rainbow.
(b) Computer.
(c) Butterfly.
(d) Locomotive.

5. Whose death is "Thou Shalt Not Kill" written in mourning of?
(a) Jack Kerouac.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Dylan Thomas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the character Japhy Ryder is based on in "The Dharma Bums"?

2. Which author wrote the poem "The Death of Kin Chuen Louie"?

3. What band did Tuli Kupferberg co-found?

4. Who is the author of the poem "Columbia U Poesy Reading--1975"?

5. What is railed against in the poem "A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring"?

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