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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 the author of "I Have Given Fair Warning"?
(a) Diane DiPrima.
(b) Philip Whalen.
(c) Allen Ginsberg.
(d) Philip Lamantia.

2. Where did Gary Snyder attend college?
(a) Swarthmore College.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) NYU.
(d) Reed College.

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

4. The poem "The Night Is a Space of White Marble" describes a wild experience in __________.
(a) Mexico.
(b) New York.
(c) Canada.
(d) Californa.

5. Which cited Bob Dylan song asks when African Americans will be free?
(a) "Lay Lady Lay."
(b) "Blowin' in the Wind."
(c) "Tarantula."
(d) "Hard Rain."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which poem of Diane DiPrima's is an attack on Gary Snyder's conception of women as mere carriers of children?

3. Where was Lew Welch born?

4. Where did the Snyder family move when Gary was two years old?

5. What is "tea" in reference to in the poem "A Poem for the Tea Heads"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What political allusions does Diane DiPrima make in "April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa"?

2. What is the subject of "Kentucky Ham"?

3. What is the subject of "Hymna to Archilochus"?

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

5. What literary and political allusions are in "Sourdough Mountain Lookout"?

6. Who is Gary Snyder? What settings appear in his work?

7. What works of John Wieners are included in the anthology? Where is he from?

8. What did Ed Sanders experience after reading "Howl"?

9. How did the term "Beat" evolve into the late 50s and early 60s?

10. What is "Highway Ninety-Nine"?

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