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

2. What former wife of Neal Cassady wrote about her experiences with Cassady and other beats in "Off the Road"?
(a) Marie Cassady.
(b) Anne Cassady.
(c) Jennifer Cassady.
(d) Carolyn Cassady.

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

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

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

6. What kind of drivers does Gary Snyder refer to in "Night Highway Ninety-Nine"?
(a) New York.
(b) B.C.
(c) Lost.
(d) High.

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

8. Who wrote the poem "Nova Express"?
(a) Allen Ginsberg.
(b) Gregory Corso.
(c) William S. Burroughs.
(d) Jack Kerouac.

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

10. Where is Diane DiPrima from?
(a) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(b) Brooklyn, New York.
(c) Sacramento, California.
(d) Los Angeles, California.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Amiri Baraka studied at what university?

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

3. In which song does Bob Dylan write about trying to get his piano fixed by a lazy, unionized piano tuner?

4. Who is the author of the poem "Columbia U Poesy Reading--1975"?

5. Who is "Mr. Dullness" likely a reference to in the poem "A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring"?

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