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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. What newsletter was created by Diane DiPrima and LeRoi Jones?
(a) "Floating Bear."
(b) "Free Man."
(c) "Yeti."
(d) "Beat Reader."

2. Which is the first of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poems featured in Some San Francisco Renaissance Poets Part One?
(a) "Lost Highway."
(b) "America."
(c) "Coney Island of the Mind."
(d) "Dog."

3. When was Rotterdam bombed by the Nazis?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1939.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Jack Kerouac born?

2. What is the title of the first book Jack Kerouac published?

3. In what year does Jack Kerouac meet Neal Cassady?

4. How old was Gary Snyder when he was laid up for an accident for four months?

5. What is the title of Neal Cassady's unfinished autobiography?

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