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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. What excerpt of Gregory Corso's questions what it means to be Beat and if there is even such a thing?
(a) "Variations on a Generation."
(b) "Marriage."
(c) "Bomb."
(d) "Song of a Generation."

2. Who developed the "cut-up" method of writing used by William S. Burroughs?
(a) Gregory Corso.
(b) Ray Bremser.
(c) Jack Kerouac.
(d) Brion Gysin.

3. Albion is another name for what?
(a) England.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Tuna.
(d) Europe.

4. Who is the author of "I Have Given Fair Warning"?
(a) Philip Lamantia.
(b) Philip Whalen.
(c) Diane DiPrima.
(d) Allen Ginsberg.

5. Where did Allen Ginsberg grow up?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) Princeton, NJ.
(c) Chicago, IL.
(d) Patterson, NJ.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Day Lady Died" is a description of everything O'Hara did the day who died?

2. When did Neal Cassady move to New York and meet Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac?

3. What was Amiri Baraka's birth name?

4. When did Lew Welch enlist in the Army Air Corp?

5. In "Dinners and Nightmares," the author describes mashed potatoes and tomato sauce, which is referred to as _____________.

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