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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Some San Francisco Renaissance Poets Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Neal Cassady born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1920.

2. In what year does Jack Kerouac meet Neal Cassady?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1959.

3. Where did Neal Cassady grow up?
(a) New York.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Denver.
(d) New Orleans.

4. When did Neal Cassady move to New York and meet Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1942.

5. What is Jack Kerouac's fictionalized name in the novel Go?
(a) Albert Ancke.
(b) Gene Pasternak.
(c) Paul Hobbes.
(d) Hart Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. "A Supermarket in America" describes Ginsberg grocery shopping with a vision of whom?

2. Whose death is "Thou Shalt Not Kill" written in mourning of?

3. Who opened the City Lights Bookstore?

4. Where was Jack Kerouac born?

5. The character "Elsie John" in the poem by Herbert Huncke is a __________.

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