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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. In his letters to Kerouac, whom does Cassady write that he has been sleeping with, but her mother doesn't like him?
(a) Patricia.
(b) Joan.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Mary.

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

3. Upon which Beat writer was The Dharma Bums based?
(a) Michael McClure.
(b) Gary Snyder
(c) Neal Cassady.
(d) Allen Ginsberg.

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

5. Peter Orlovsky was whose lover?
(a) Diane DiPrima's.
(b) Allen Ginsberg's.
(c) Neal Cassady's.
(d) Carolyn Cassady's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Rotterdam bombed by the Nazis?

3. In what year does William Burroughs Junior go to visit his father in "Tales of Beatnik Glory"?

4. Where was Michael McClure born?

5. Who cuts off someone's fingers in the poem "Nova Express"?

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