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The Portable Beat Reader Quiz

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This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Portable Beat Reader.
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The Portable Beat Reader Quiz

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This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Portable Beat Reader.

Take our free The Portable Beat Reader quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

In which song does Bob Dylan write about trying to get his piano fixed by a lazy, unionized piano tuner? (from Other Fellow Travelers Part One)

2.

In "One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro," Ferlinghetti is convinced that Castro's cause is ___________. (from Some San Francisco Renaissance Poets Part One)

3.

What does Mailer assert that hipsters are, but are aware of it in "The White Negro"? (from Three Commentators on the Beat Generation)

4.

Albion is another name for what? (from Some San Francisco Renaissance Poets Part Two)

5.

According to Norman Mailer's "The White Negro," to avoid conformity, hipsters adopted the styles of ______ who were kept out of mainstream American culture by force. (from Three Commentators on the Beat Generation)

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