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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Joyce Johnson.
(b) Carolyn Cassady.
(c) Jan Anderson.
(d) Anna Smith.

5. Who is the author of the poem "The Canticle of Jack Kerouac"?
(a) Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
(b) William S. Burroughs.
(c) Neal Cassady.
(d) Allen Ginsberg.

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

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

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

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

10. Which poem of Diane DiPrima's is an attack on Gary Snyder's conception of women as mere carriers of children?
(a) "The Practice of Magical Evocation."
(b) "Brass Furnace Going Out: Song, after an Abortion."
(c) "Song for Baby-O."
(d) "Three Laments."

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

12. Which author wrote the poem "Smokey the Bear Sutra"?
(a) Philip Whalen.
(b) Gary Snyder.
(c) Diane DiPrima.
(d) Gregory Corso.

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

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

15. What newsletter was created by Diane DiPrima and LeRoi Jones?
(a) "Free Man."
(b) "Yeti."
(c) "Beat Reader."
(d) "Floating Bear."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Bob Kaufman born?

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

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

4. Where is Amiri Baraka from?

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

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