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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The character "Elsie John" in the poem by Herbert Huncke is a __________.
(a) Hermaphrodite.
(b) Housewife.
(c) Zoologist.
(d) Fisherman.

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

3. Whom did Neal Cassady marry in 1948?
(a) Marie Smith.
(b) Sarah Pomeray.
(c) Joan Anderson.
(d) Carolyn Robinson.

4. What is the dog looking at questioningly in the poem "Dog"?
(a) A gramophone.
(b) A flower.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A telephone.

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

6. In what year was John Clellon Holmes born?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1930.

7. When did the Six Gallery reading take place?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1950.

8. In what year was Allen Ginsberg born?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1935.

9. What university did William S. Burroughs attend?
(a) Rutgers.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

10. Where was Jack Kerouac born?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) San Jose, CA.
(c) Lowell, MA.
(d) San Francisco, CA.

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

12. Who conceived the Six Gallery reading?
(a) Floyd Williams.
(b) Allen Ginsberg.
(c) Wally Hedrick.
(d) Jack Kerouac.

13. What is the name of the West Coast literary revolution which was heralded largely by the Six Gallery reading?
(a) California Renaissance.
(b) San Francisco Six.
(c) San Francisco Renaissance.
(d) West Coast School of Poetry.

14. 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) Margaret.
(d) Joan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who opened the City Lights Bookstore?

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

3. Where did Neal Cassady grow up?

4. What event is one of the central focuses of "America"?

5. The Beat Generation started off in what city?

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