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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "I Have Given Fair Warning"?
(a) Diane DiPrima.
(b) Philip Whalen.
(c) Philip Lamantia.
(d) Allen Ginsberg.

2. When was Philip Lamantia born?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1913.

3. Baraka's letter to "Evergreen Review" discusses whose rules for writing prose?
(a) Burroughs.
(b) Ginsberg.
(c) Kerouac.
(d) Corso.

4. What Italian immigrants to America accused of anarchy are referred to in the poem "April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa"?
(a) Bacco and Minusi.
(b) Sacco and Vanzetti.
(c) Ancini and Rossi.
(d) Legari and Antoni.

5. What poem of Brenda Frazer's is included in the anthology?
(a) "Lament, Lament."
(b) "Unlisted Characters."
(c) "Poem to Lee Forest."
(d) "Thirteen Nightmares."

6. When was Diane DiPrima born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1939.

7. What band did Tuli Kupferberg co-found?
(a) The Fugs.
(b) The Mailmen.
(c) The Pogues.
(d) The Pixies.

8. When did Amiri Baraka adopt his current name?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1972.

9. What is railed against in the poem "A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring"?
(a) Conformity.
(b) Love.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Children.

10. Where did the Snyder family move when Gary was two years old?
(a) California.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Washington.
(d) Kentucky.

11. Where was Tuli Kupferberg from?
(a) New York City.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Los Angeles.

12. Where did Gary Snyder attend college?
(a) NYU.
(b) Reed College.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) Swarthmore College.

13. Which poem of Amiri Baraka's describes the black music scene in Newark in the early 1960s?
(a) "Three Laments."
(b) "Way Out West."
(c) "In Memory of Radio."
(d) "The Screamers."

14. Where did Diane DiPrima attend college before dropping out to become a poet?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Swarthmore College.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Yale University.

15. When was Ray Bremser born?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which poem of Diane DiPrima's is an attack on Gary Snyder's conception of women as mere carriers of children?

2. Where was Bob Kaufman born?

3. How old is William Burroughs Junior when he first smokes marijuana in "Tales of Beatnik Glory"?

4. Where was Ray Bremser born?

5. "1001 Ways to Beat the Draft" was originally a _____________.

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