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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Allen Ginsberg begin attending Columbia University?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1952.

2. When did Neal Cassady move to New York and meet Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1947.

3. The Beat Generation started off in what city?
(a) Paris.
(b) New York.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) New Orleans.

4. Who is Jack Kerouac known as in On the Road?
(a) Sal Paradisio.
(b) Dean Moriarty.
(c) Carlo Marx.
(d) Jack Duluoz.

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

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

7. In what year was the novel Go published?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1951.

8. What is Neal Cassady's mother's name?
(a) Marie.
(b) Maude.
(c) Naomi.
(d) Anne.

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

14. Whom does Neal Cassady write about visiting in the hospital after a suicide attempt in his letters to Kerouac?
(a) Patricia.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Joan.

15. Where did Neal Cassady grow up?
(a) Denver.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) New York.
(d) New Orleans.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Six Gallery reading take place?

2. In what year did Gregory Corso meet Allen Ginsberg?

3. William S. Burroughs' family made a fortune from producing ____________.

4. In what year was Jack Kerouac born?

5. Whose death is "Thou Shalt Not Kill" written in mourning of?

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