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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the city of Rotterdam, cited in Corso's "Vision of Rotterdam"?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Netherlands.
(d) England.

2. What is the name of Michael McClure's fictionalized character in Big Sur?
(a) Mark McDougal.
(b) Michael McLear.
(c) Andrew Carlotti.
(d) Pat McLear.

3. When did Herbert Huncke meet William S. Burroughs?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1947.

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

5. What excerpt of Gregory Corso's questions what it means to be Beat and if there is even such a thing?
(a) "Bomb."
(b) "Song of a Generation."
(c) "Marriage."
(d) "Variations on a Generation."

6. What jazz musician does Jack Kerouac write about in "Mexico City Blues"?
(a) Satchmo.
(b) Charlie Parker.
(c) Thelonius Monk.
(d) Louis Armstrong.

7. When was Neal Cassady born?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1922.

8. In his letters to Kerouac, whom does Cassady write that he has been sleeping with, but her mother doesn't like him?
(a) Patricia.
(b) Mary.
(c) Joan.
(d) Margaret.

9. In what year was Jack Kerouac born?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1930.

10. When did Neal Cassady's parents divorce?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1950.

11. What is Allen Ginsberg's fictionalized name in the novel Go?
(a) Albert Ancke.
(b) David Stofsky.
(c) Hart Kennedy.
(d) Paul Hobbes.

12. "A Supermarket in America" describes Ginsberg grocery shopping with a vision of whom?
(a) Norman Mailer.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Walt Whitman.

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

14. When was Gregory Corso born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1930.

15. Where was Neal Cassady born?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) Denver, CO.
(c) Los Angeles, NY.
(d) Salt Lake City, UT.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jack Kerouac known as in On the Road?

2. What is the name of the West Coast literary revolution which was heralded largely by the Six Gallery reading?

3. Where did Carl Soloman meet Allen Ginsberg?

4. What is Jack Kerouac's fictionalized name in the novel Go?

5. How old was Neal Cassady when his parents divorced?

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