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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Three Commentators on the Beat Generation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event is one of the central focuses of "America"?
(a) The Spanish War.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) World War III.

2. Who wrote "First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels"?
(a) Neal Cassady.
(b) Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
(c) Jack Kerouac.
(d) Allen Ginsberg.

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

4. The poem "The Night Is a Space of White Marble" describes a wild experience in __________.
(a) Canada.
(b) Mexico.
(c) New York.
(d) Californa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the character Japhy Ryder is based on in "The Dharma Bums"?

2. "The Day Lady Died" is a description of everything O'Hara did the day who died?

3. For what Los Angeles paper did Charles Bukowski write a weekly column?

4. Who is the author of the poem "Columbia U Poesy Reading--1975"?

5. What is Herbert Huncke's fictionalized name in Go?

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