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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. Where did Gary Snyder attend college?
(a) Swarthmore College.
(b) NYU.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) Reed College.

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

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

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

5. Who became Allen Ginsberg's lover after his move to California?
(a) Michael Orlovsky.
(b) Adam Schwartz.
(c) Mark Patterson.
(d) Peter Orlovsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is railed against in the poem "A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring"?

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

3. Frank O'Hara was a key member of what literary circle?

4. What university did William S. Burroughs attend?

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

(see the answer key)

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