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

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

3. In what year was John Clellon Holmes born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1926.

4. Baraka's letter to "Evergreen Review" discusses whose rules for writing prose?
(a) Burroughs.
(b) Corso.
(c) Ginsberg.
(d) Kerouac.

5. What word does Michael McClure frequently play with in "Peyote Poem"?
(a) Needle.
(b) Cactus.
(c) Dream.
(d) Stomach.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Philip Lamantia born?

2. Who wrote "Dinners and Nightmares"?

3. When did the Six Gallery reading take place?

4. Who is the author of "Poet of the Streets"?

5. Which poem of Peter Orlovsky's is included in the anthology?

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