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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Neal Cassady when his parents divorced?
(a) 15.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

2. The Beat Generation started off in what city?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Paris.
(d) New York.

3. For whom was Jack Kerouac once a sports writer?
(a) The Princeton Review.
(b) The Lowell Sun.
(c) The Herald Review.
(d) The Columbia Sun.

4. What is Jack Kerouac's most famous novel?
(a) On the Road.
(b) Big Sur.
(c) The Dharma Bums.
(d) Visions of Cody.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Sunflower Sutra," Ginsberg writes that a sunflower is trying to become a _______________.

2. Where did Jack Kerouac attend college?

3. Where was Jack Kerouac born?

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

5. Where is the city of Rotterdam, cited in Corso's "Vision of Rotterdam"?

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