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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In which song does Bob Dylan write about trying to get his piano fixed by a lazy, unionized piano tuner?
(a) "Hard Rain."
(b) "Tarantula."
(c) "Lay Lady Lady."
(d) "Blowin' in the Wind."

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

4. To whom was Brenda Frazer formerly married?
(a) Allen Ginsberg.
(b) Bob Dylan.
(c) Jack Kerouac.
(d) Ray Bremser.

5. When did Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and LeRoi Jones throw a party for the prison release of Ray Bremser?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1964.

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

7. Which author wrote the poem "The Death of Kin Chuen Louie"?
(a) Michael McClure.
(b) Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
(c) Allen Ginsberg
(d) Gregory Corso.

8. In what year does William Burroughs Junior go to visit his father in "Tales of Beatnik Glory"?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1970.

9. Where was Ray Bremser born?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) New Orleans, LA.
(c) Jersey City, NJ.
(d) San Francisco, CA.

10. Where was Peter Orlovsky from?
(a) Tuscon, AZ.
(b) Sacramento, CA.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) Lexington, KY.

11. Which of the founders of Russian anarchism is referred to in the poem "April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa"?
(a) Kropotkin.
(b) Vrostkin.
(c) Krympotin.
(d) Brygatin.

12. Who is a former girlfriend of Jack Kerouac and wrote a book called "Minor Characters" about some of the lesser known people in Beat circles?
(a) Carolyn Cassady.
(b) Joyce Johnson.
(c) Jan Anderson.
(d) Anna Smith.

13. Where was Bob Kaufman born?
(a) St. Petersburg, Russia.
(b) Los Angeles, California.
(c) New Orleans, Louisiana.
(d) Baton Rouge, Lousiana.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which cited Bob Dylan song asks when African Americans will be free?

2. Where did Frank O'Hara grow up?

3. Whom did Charles Bukowski write an article about meeting shortly before his death in "Tales of Beatnik Glory"?

4. Which poem of Peter Orlovsky's is included in the anthology?

5. When was Diane DiPrima born?

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