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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. In the poem "Les Luths," Frank O'Hara writes of wondering what _______________ is doing.
(a) Gary Snyder.
(b) Jack Kerouac.
(c) Allen Ginsberg.
(d) Neal Cassady.

2. With whom did Brenda Frazer travel to Mexico City in the 1960s?
(a) Neal Cassady.
(b) Jack Kerouac.
(c) William S. Hunter.
(d) Ray Bremser.

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

4. Whom does Philip Whalen write of drinking with in "Prose Take-Out Portland 13:ix:58"?
(a) Jack Kerouac.
(b) Neal Cassady.
(c) Allen Ginsberg.
(d) Gregory Corso.

5. Which of the founders of Russian anarchism is referred to in the poem "April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa"?
(a) Krympotin.
(b) Kropotkin.
(c) Vrostkin.
(d) Brygatin.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Diane DiPrima born?

2. Who wrote the poem "Nova Express"?

3. Where did Frank O'Hara grow up?

4. When did Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and LeRoi Jones throw a party for the prison release of Ray Bremser?

5. Which poem of Amiri Baraka's describes the black music scene in Newark in the early 1960s?

Short Essay Questions

1. What artistic and literary allusions are in "The Canticle of Jack Kerouac"?

2. Who is Brenda Frazer? What is "Poem to Lee Forest" about?

3. Describe the irony of Peter Orlovsky's "Lepers Cry."

4. What is "Highway Ninety-Nine"?

5. Who is Philip Lamantia and what works of his are in the anthology?

6. Who is Philip Whalen? How does Whalen's poem about Sourdough Mountain differ from Snyder's?

7. What symbolism is evident in the works of Bob Dylan? What do these symbols represent?

8. Who is Bob Dylan? What contributions of his are in the anthology?

9. Describe Tuli Kupferberg and his pieces in The Portable Beat Reader.

10. Who is Ray Bremser? What is the subject of "Funny Lotus Blues..."?

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