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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 did Neal Cassady's parents divorce?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1937.

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

3. "Song" by Allen Ginsberg is a simple poem about ____________.
(a) Food.
(b) Peace.
(c) Love.
(d) Freedom.

4. William Everson credits Rexroth with launching Beat poetry more so than whom?
(a) Jack Kerouac.
(b) William Carlos Williams.
(c) William S. Burroughs.
(d) Allen Ginsberg.

5. Whom did Neal Cassady marry in 1948?
(a) Carolyn Robinson.
(b) Joan Anderson.
(c) Sarah Pomeray.
(d) Marie Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Neal Cassady move to New York and meet Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac?

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

3. What word does Michael McClure frequently play with in "Peyote Poem"?

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

5. In what year did Gregory Corso meet Allen Ginsberg?

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