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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. Which "beat" term refers to a person who is ignorant of or uninterested in current fads, ideas, manners, tastes, etc.?
(a) Base.
(b) Unhip.
(c) Square.
(d) Boring.

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

3. What is the first excerpted selection of Gregory Corso's in the text?
(a) "Vision at Rotterdam."
(b) "Bomb."
(c) "I Am 25."
(d) "The Mad Yak."

4. Who is the author of the poem "The Canticle of Jack Kerouac"?
(a) William S. Burroughs.
(b) Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
(c) Neal Cassady.
(d) Allen Ginsberg.

5. What is the name of the girl Kerouac describes meeting in "The Subterraneans"?
(a) Mardou.
(b) Marie.
(c) Stephanie.
(d) Catalina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "poofed into fat air" in the poem "Columbia U Poesy Reading--1975"?

2. Where did Allen Ginsberg grow up?

3. Who is the author of "I Have Given Fair Warning"?

4. In what year was the novel Go published?

5. Whom does Philip Whalen write of drinking with in "Prose Take-Out Portland 13:ix:58"?

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