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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. What is Jack Kerouac's fictionalized name in the novel Go?
(a) Paul Hobbes.
(b) Albert Ancke.
(c) Gene Pasternak.
(d) Hart Kennedy.

2. With whom did Brenda Frazer travel to Mexico City in the 1960s?
(a) Ray Bremser.
(b) Jack Kerouac.
(c) William S. Hunter.
(d) Neal Cassady.

3. In what year was William S. Burroughs born?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1919.

4. Upon which Beat writer was The Dharma Bums based?
(a) Neal Cassady.
(b) Michael McClure.
(c) Gary Snyder
(d) Allen Ginsberg.

5. Where did the Six Gallery reading take place?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) New York.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) San Francisco.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is "Mr. Dullness" likely a reference to in the poem "A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring"?

2. Where was Tuli Kupferberg from?

3. When was Diane DiPrima born?

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

5. What is Allen Ginsberg's fictionalized name in the novel Go?

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