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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tales of Beatnik Glory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Jack Kerouac known as in On the Road?
(a) Dean Moriarty.
(b) Jack Duluoz.
(c) Carlo Marx.
(d) Sal Paradisio.

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

3. For what Los Angeles paper did Charles Bukowski write a weekly column?
(a) "Angel City."
(b) "The Beat Reader."
(c) "Open City."
(d) "Los Angeles Chronicle."

4. Who developed the "cut-up" method of writing used by William S. Burroughs?
(a) Brion Gysin.
(b) Jack Kerouac.
(c) Ray Bremser.
(d) Gregory Corso.

5. Which poem of Diane DiPrima's is an attack on Gary Snyder's conception of women as mere carriers of children?
(a) "Brass Furnace Going Out: Song, after an Abortion."
(b) "Three Laments."
(c) "The Practice of Magical Evocation."
(d) "Song for Baby-O."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the character based on Neal Cassady in Go?

2. When did Herbert Huncke meet William S. Burroughs?

3. Upon which Beat writer was The Dharma Bums based?

4. Who opened the City Lights Bookstore?

5. When did Neal Cassady's parents divorce?

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