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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Neal Cassady known as in On the Road?
(a) Carlo Marx.
(b) Jonny Moriarty.
(c) Dean Moriarty.
(d) Cody Pomeray.

2. When was Rotterdam bombed by the Nazis?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1941.

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

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

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

6. To whom does Allen Ginsberg write from a mental institution in "Howl"?
(a) Neal Cassady.
(b) Jack Kerouac.
(c) Carl Solomon.
(d) Mark Patterson.

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

8. "Song" by Allen Ginsberg is a simple poem about ____________.
(a) Love.
(b) Food.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Peace.

9. What is Allen Ginsberg's most famous work?
(a) "America."
(b) "Kaddish."
(c) "Howl."
(d) "Song."

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

11. What is the name of John Clellon Holmes' representation of himself in Go?
(a) Paul Hobbes.
(b) Peter Dexter.
(c) Peter Henderson.
(d) Michael Dollen.

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

13. Whose death is "Thou Shalt Not Kill" written in mourning of?
(a) Jack Kerouac.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Dylan Thomas.

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

15. What is Jack Kerouac's most famous novel?
(a) Visions of Cody.
(b) The Dharma Bums.
(c) Big Sur.
(d) On the Road.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Neal Cassady when he was first arrested for theft?

2. Where did the Six Gallery reading take place?

3. What university did William S. Burroughs attend?

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

5. What business did Neal Cassady's father open in Los Angeles, CA?

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