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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Other Fellow Travelers Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Poem from Jail" discusses the necessity of banning ____________.
(a) Pornography.
(b) Nuclear weapons.
(c) Communism.
(d) Religion.

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

3. What is Allen Ginsberg's fictionalized name in the novel Go?
(a) Hart Kennedy.
(b) David Stofsky.
(c) Albert Ancke.
(d) Paul Hobbes.

4. Baraka's letter to "Evergreen Review" discusses whose rules for writing prose?
(a) Burroughs.
(b) Ginsberg.
(c) Corso.
(d) Kerouac.

5. In what year was Allen Ginsberg born?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1922.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Ann Waldron born?

2. In what year did Allen Ginsberg meet Neal Cassady?

3. Which poem of Diane DiPrima's is an attack on Gary Snyder's conception of women as mere carriers of children?

4. Whom does Neal Cassady write about visiting in the hospital after a suicide attempt in his letters to Kerouac?

5. What was the name of Gary Snyder's father?

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