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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels"?
(a) Neal Cassady.
(b) Jack Kerouac.
(c) Allen Ginsberg.
(d) Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

2. For what Los Angeles paper did Charles Bukowski write a weekly column?
(a) "The Beat Reader."
(b) "Open City."
(c) "Los Angeles Chronicle."
(d) "Angel City."

3. "The Night Is a Space of White Marble" carries a reference to which Greek god?
(a) Pan.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Ares.
(d) Dionysus.

4. When did Lew Welch enlist in the Army Air Corp?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1947.

5. In the poem "Les Luths," Frank O'Hara writes of wondering what _______________ is doing.
(a) Jack Kerouac.
(b) Neal Cassady.
(c) Gary Snyder.
(d) Allen Ginsberg.

6. Albion is another name for what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) England.
(c) Tuna.
(d) Europe.

7. Who is the author of "Poet of the Streets"?
(a) Jack Kerouac.
(b) Diane DiPrima.
(c) Jack Micheline.
(d) Tuli Kupferberg.

8. Where did Frank O'Hara grow up?
(a) Grafton, Massachusetts.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) Tuscon, Arizona.
(d) San Francisco, California.

9. Where was Lew Welch born?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) Los Angeles, CA.
(c) Phoenix, AZ.
(d) Lexington, KY.

10. Who is the author of the poem "Columbia U Poesy Reading--1975"?
(a) Allen Ginsberg.
(b) Neal Cassady.
(c) Philip Whalen.
(d) Gregory Corso.

11. Where does Highway Ninety-Nine begin?
(a) New York.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Washington.
(d) Chicago.

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

13. Who "poofed into fat air" in the poem "Columbia U Poesy Reading--1975"?
(a) Jack Kerouac.
(b) Philip Whalen.
(c) Allen Ginsberg.
(d) Gregory Corso.

14. Who is the author of the poem "April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa"?
(a) Philip Whalen.
(b) Allen Ginsberg.
(c) Gregory Corso.
(d) Diane DiPrima.

15. Peter Orlovsky was whose lover?
(a) Carolyn Cassady's.
(b) Allen Ginsberg's.
(c) Neal Cassady's.
(d) Diane DiPrima's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Gary Snyder attend college?

2. Frank O'Hara was a key member of what literary circle?

3. What kind of drivers does Gary Snyder refer to in "Night Highway Ninety-Nine"?

4. What is railed against in the poem "A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring"?

5. Baraka's letter to "Evergreen Review" discusses whose rules for writing prose?

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