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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ginsberg makes it a point to embrace which of the following?
(a) Education.
(b) Cello.
(c) Nature.
(d) Sheet music.

2. Which word is the best to describe the result of people's desire?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Abyss.
(c) Foolish.
(d) Self-absorption.

3. Who shall not be defeated in the end?
(a) Man.
(b) God.
(c) Artist.
(d) Woman.

4. What did Solomon do for a living?
(a) Writer.
(b) Unemployed.
(c) Sanitation worker.
(d) Painter.

5. Ginsberg believes that it is important to be which of the following?
(a) Suspicious.
(b) Grateful.
(c) Hopeful.
(d) Observant.

6. Ginsberg compares people to which of the following?
(a) Songs.
(b) Sunflowers.
(c) Meteors.
(d) Clouds.

7. Ginsberg stated that the meeting with Solomon was ____________.
(a) Enjoyable.
(b) Monumental.
(c) Fruitless.
(d) Indescribable.

8. Ginsberg saw poetry as being __________.
(a) Art.
(b) Life-threatening.
(c) Superfluous.
(d) Necessary.

9. Many people in Ginsberg's generation sought to avoid what?
(a) Rat race.
(b) Religion.
(c) Military draft.
(d) Politics.

10. Which of the following was common on the scene in those days?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Absinthe.
(d) Protest marches.

11. Some writers ended up where?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Madison Avenue.
(c) California.
(d) In the Bowery.

12. Ginsberg believes that people should focus on ________________.
(a) Family.
(b) How they treat each other.
(c) God.
(d) Charity.

13. Ginsberg embraces which of the following?
(a) Summer.
(b) Joy.
(c) Puzzles.
(d) Simplicity.

14. What does the friend point out to Ginsberg?
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Spider.
(c) Rat.
(d) Sunflower.

15. What is the man's first name?
(a) William.
(b) Pablo.
(c) Garcia.
(d) Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is known as changing something to make it work for you?

2. The poet asks questions of whom?

3. The author recognizes what about the item?

4. Ginsberg was a big supporter of ___________.

5. Ginsberg sees a need for which of the following?

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