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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Allen Ginsberg known as in On the Road?
(a) Dean Moriarty.
(b) Cody Pomeray.
(c) Jack Duluoz.
(d) Carlo Marx.

2. What word does Michael McClure frequently play with in "Peyote Poem"?
(a) Dream.
(b) Stomach.
(c) Needle.
(d) Cactus.

3. When did Neal Cassady move to New York and meet Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1947.

4. What business did Neal Cassady's father open in Los Angeles, CA?
(a) Candy Store.
(b) Convenience Store.
(c) Barbershop.
(d) Bar.

5. In what year did Neal Cassady die?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1969.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jack Kerouac known as in On the Road?

2. In what year was William S. Burroughs born?

3. What is Allen Ginsberg's most famous work?

4. In what year was John Clellon Holmes born?

5. How old was Neal Cassady when he was first arrested for theft?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ginsberg's subject in "A Supermarket in America"?

2. Who is Neal Cassady? How is he introduced in the text?

3. Who is Lawrence Ferlinghetti? What is his role in the Beat movement? What is his poem "Dog" about?

4. Who is John Clellon Holmes, and what is his impact on the Beat Generation?

5. What is the theme of the poem "Kaddish"?

6. What repetition is used in the "Peyote Poem"? Why?

7. How do Cassady and Kerouac differ on their perspective of Cassady's childhood?

8. Where does Jack Kerouac refer to his own style of writing in "On the Road"? What metaphor does the author make?

9. What biographical facts are mixed up in Kerouac's "On the Road"? What details are omitted?

10. What religious allusion is used in the poem "Thou Shalt Not Kill"?

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