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

2. Ginsberg fantasizes about being a _____________.
(a) Store detective.
(b) Writer.
(c) Pilot.
(d) Rabbi.

3. On which item do the friends sit?
(a) Dock.
(b) Sofa.
(c) Crate.
(d) Ground.

4. What was the new job for the creative?
(a) Day labor.
(b) Advertising.
(c) Factory work.
(d) Car sales.

5. Ginsberg believed that many people worshiped which of the following?
(a) God.
(b) Money.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ginsberg laments the loss of which of the following?

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

3. The author practices which of the following?

4. What does Ginsberg see in society?

5. What became Ginsberg's most famous poem?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ginsberg compare the flower to the locomotive? What is the symbolism/metaphor?

2. Ginsberg spends a great deal of time talking about what is holy. What are the poet's thoughts on the subject?

3. What is Ginsberg's dream about being with Whitman in the store?

4. What was involved in regard to some of the social and political action taken by Ginsberg's peers?

5. What is the overall theme mentioned in the footnote? What is the poet's meaning?

6. What is one of the things that Ginsberg might discuss or dream about with Whitman on the way home?

7. What is the main theme of the poem? Why is the theme important?

8. What common object is spotted by Kerouac? Where? What is Ginsberg's reaction?

9. What were some of the things the people of Ginsberg's generation did to try and ease the pain of youth?

10. What is the setting for Sunflower Sutra? What do the men dream about in regards to the scene?

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