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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Allen Ginsberg's father's name?
(a) James.
(b) Louis.
(c) Mark.
(d) Carlo.

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

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

4. What business did Neal Cassady's father open in Los Angeles, CA?
(a) Candy Store.
(b) Barbershop.
(c) Convenience Store.
(d) Bar.

5. What is the title of the first book Jack Kerouac published?
(a) The Town and the City.
(b) On the Road.
(c) The Dharma Bums.
(d) Big Sur.

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

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

8. In "Visions of Cody," Cody is especially talented at ______________.
(a) Pool.
(b) Football.
(c) Darts.
(d) Bowling.

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

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

11. For whom was Jack Kerouac once a sports writer?
(a) The Columbia Sun.
(b) The Lowell Sun.
(c) The Princeton Review.
(d) The Herald Review.

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

13. In the second excerpt from On the Road, where are the two main characters initially?
(a) California.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Nebraska.

14. Where did Jack Kerouac attend college?
(a) NYU.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Columbia.
(d) UCLA.

15. How old was Neal Cassady when his parents divorced?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Neal Cassady move to New York and meet Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac?

2. When did Herbert Huncke meet William S. Burroughs?

3. What does Dean trade for a a watch in Mexico in On the Road?

4. Where did the Six Gallery reading take place?

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

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