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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Ed Sanders born?
(a) New Hope, PA.
(b) Patterson, NJ.
(c) Kansas City, MO.
(d) Little Rock, AR.

2. Who cuts off someone's fingers in the poem "Nova Express"?
(a) A handicapped man.
(b) A little girl.
(c) A mother.
(d) A grandmother.

3. Frank O'Hara was a key member of what literary circle?
(a) San Francisco Renaissance.
(b) New York School of Poetry.
(c) New School of Poetry.
(d) Beat West Coast.

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

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

6. What is "tea" in reference to in the poem "A Poem for the Tea Heads"?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Opium.
(d) Benzedrine.

7. Where is Amiri Baraka from?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Cleveland, Mississippi.
(c) Sacramento, California.
(d) Newark, New Jersey.

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

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

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

11. What was the name of Gary Snyder's father?
(a) Mark.
(b) Harold.
(c) Ezekiel.
(d) Henry.

12. What was Amiri Baraka's birth name?
(a) LeRoi Jones.
(b) Allen Smith.
(c) Marcus Frances.
(d) Leroy James.

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

14. The poem "The Night Is a Space of White Marble" describes a wild experience in __________.
(a) New York.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Canada.
(d) Californa.

15. At which college did John Wieners study poetry?
(a) Black Mountain College.
(b) Remington College.
(c) UCLA.
(d) NYU.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Brenda Frazer travel to Mexico City in the 1960s?

2. Who wrote "First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels"?

3. How old was Gary Snyder when he was laid up for an accident for four months?

4. Where does Highway Ninety-Nine begin?

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

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