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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. Where did Allen Ginsberg grow up?
(a) Princeton, NJ.
(b) Patterson, NJ.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) Chicago, IL.

2. What university did William S. Burroughs attend?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Rutgers.

3. Where was Gregory Corso born?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) Sacramento, CA.
(c) Boston, MA.
(d) Portland, OR.

4. What is the first excerpted selection of Gregory Corso's in the text?
(a) "I Am 25."
(b) "Bomb."
(c) "Vision at Rotterdam."
(d) "The Mad Yak."

5. What is Herbert Huncke's fictionalized name in Go?
(a) Albert Ancke.
(b) Hart Kennedy.
(c) Peter Henderson.
(d) Paul Hobbes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Herbert Huncke introduced William S. Burroughs to _____________.

2. Who is Neal Cassady known as in On the Road?

3. What word does Michael McClure frequently play with in "Peyote Poem"?

4. Whose death is "Thou Shalt Not Kill" written in mourning of?

5. When did Neal Cassady's parents divorce?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe William S. Burroughs' style in "Naked Lunch."

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

6. Who is Kenneth Rexroth? What is his contribution in the anthology?

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

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

9. Describe the poetry of Gregory Corso, including subject and themes.

10. In his letters to Kerouac, what is Cassady's description of how he lost his old girlfriend Joan in Denver?

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