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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 Neal Cassady known as in On the Road?
(a) Cody Pomeray.
(b) Dean Moriarty.
(c) Jonny Moriarty.
(d) Carlo Marx.
2. Where did Neal Cassady grow up?
(a) New York.
(b) Denver.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) San Francisco.
3. Which is the first of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poems featured in Some San Francisco Renaissance Poets Part One?
(a) "Coney Island of the Mind."
(b) "America."
(c) "Lost Highway."
(d) "Dog."
4. What is Jack Kerouac's most famous novel?
(a) Big Sur.
(b) Visions of Cody.
(c) The Dharma Bums.
(d) On the Road.
5. Upon which Beat writer was The Dharma Bums based?
(a) Michael McClure.
(b) Gary Snyder
(c) Allen Ginsberg.
(d) Neal Cassady.
Short Answer Questions
1. William S. Burroughs' family made a fortune from producing ____________.
2. Where was Jack Kerouac born?
3. When did Allen Ginsberg begin attending Columbia University?
4. Where did Allen Ginsberg move in the 1950s?
5. In "Visions of Cody," Cody is especially talented at ______________.
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Micheal McClure? Describe his "Peyote Poem."
2. What political allusions are used in "One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro"?
3. What political references are made in the poem "America"?
4. Describe the subject of "Visions of Cody."
5. What does Ann Charters write about Carl Solomon in his biographical information? What is his work about?
6. Describe William S. Burroughs' excerpt from "Junky." What is significant about this subject?
7. What biographical facts are mixed up in Kerouac's "On the Road"? What details are omitted?
8. How do Cassady and Kerouac differ on their perspective of Cassady's childhood?
9. Who is Lawrence Ferlinghetti? What is his role in the Beat movement? What is his poem "Dog" about?
10. What is Ginsberg's subject in "A Supermarket in America"?
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