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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Gregory Corso born?
(a) Portland, OR.
(b) Boston, MA.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) Sacramento, CA.

3. In the second excerpt from On the Road, where are the two main characters initially?
(a) Nebraska.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) California.
(d) Kentucky.

4. In what year was Jack Kerouac born?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1930.

5. The character "Elsie John" in the poem by Herbert Huncke is a __________.
(a) Fisherman.
(b) Hermaphrodite.
(c) Zoologist.
(d) Housewife.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his letters to Kerouac, whom does Cassady write that he has been sleeping with, but her mother doesn't like him?

2. Who is Jack Kerouac known as in On the Road?

3. What is Herbert Huncke's fictionalized name in Go?

4. In Neal Cassady's letter to Kerouac from Kansas City, Cassady explains how he met a girl named ___________.

5. How old was Neal Cassady when he was first arrested for theft?

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