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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where did Allen Ginsberg move in the 1950s?
(a) Berkeley, CA.
(b) San Francisco, CA.
(c) Big Sur, CA.
(d) Sacramento, CA.

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

7. Where was Michael McClure born?
(a) Marysville, Kansas.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Jackson, Mississippi.
(d) Ft. Wayne, Kentucky.

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

9. Who is Allen Ginsberg known as in On the Road?
(a) Jack Duluoz.
(b) Dean Moriarty.
(c) Cody Pomeray.
(d) Carlo Marx.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In his letters to Kerouac, whom does Cassady write that he has been sleeping with, but her mother doesn't like him?

2. The character "Elsie John" in the poem by Herbert Huncke is a __________.

3. In the second excerpt from On the Road, where are the two main characters initially?

4. For whom was Jack Kerouac once a sports writer?

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

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