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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. Who is the author of the essay, "The Game of the Name"?
(a) Allen Ginsberg.
(b) Gregory Corso.
(c) John Clellon Holmes.
(d) William S. Burroughs.

2. Where did Allen Ginsberg move in the 1950s?
(a) Berkeley, CA.
(b) Sacramento, CA.
(c) Big Sur, CA.
(d) San Francisco, CA.

3. What is the name of the character based on Neal Cassady in Go?
(a) Andew Kennedy.
(b) Hart Kennedy.
(c) Mark Skawinski.
(d) Joe Kimble.

4. Who "poofed into fat air" in the poem "Columbia U Poesy Reading--1975"?
(a) Philip Whalen.
(b) Allen Ginsberg.
(c) Gregory Corso.
(d) Jack Kerouac.

5. In what year did Gregory Corso meet Allen Ginsberg?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 211th Chorus of "Mexico City Blues," Jack Kerouac wishes to be freed from the material world through _____________.

2. In the second excerpt from On the Road, where are the two main characters initially?

3. Where did the Six Gallery reading take place?

4. In what year does William Burroughs Junior go to visit his father in "Tales of Beatnik Glory"?

5. Baraka's letter to "Evergreen Review" discusses whose rules for writing prose?

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