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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. Where did the Six Gallery reading take place?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) New York.

2. Where is the city of Rotterdam, cited in Corso's "Vision of Rotterdam"?
(a) England.
(b) Netherlands.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

3. When was Philip Whalen born?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1920.

4. What does Dean trade for a a watch in Mexico in On the Road?
(a) A ring.
(b) Crystal.
(c) Money.
(d) Marijuana.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What excerpt of Gregory Corso's questions what it means to be Beat and if there is even such a thing?

2. Who opened the City Lights Bookstore?

3. The Beat Generation started off in what city?

4. Who is the author of the poem "A Berry Feast"?

5. What is Neal Cassady's mother's name?

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