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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Other Fellow Travelers Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Gary Snyder born?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) New York.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Los Angeles.

2. Where is Amiri Baraka from?
(a) Cleveland, Mississippi.
(b) Sacramento, California.
(c) Newark, New Jersey.
(d) New York, New York.

3. Who conceived the Six Gallery reading?
(a) Jack Kerouac.
(b) Allen Ginsberg.
(c) Wally Hedrick.
(d) Floyd Williams.

4. Which poem of Diane DiPrima's is an attack on Gary Snyder's conception of women as mere carriers of children?
(a) "The Practice of Magical Evocation."
(b) "Three Laments."
(c) "Brass Furnace Going Out: Song, after an Abortion."
(d) "Song for Baby-O."

5. In which song does Bob Dylan write about trying to get his piano fixed by a lazy, unionized piano tuner?
(a) "Lay Lady Lady."
(b) "Blowin' in the Wind."
(c) "Hard Rain."
(d) "Tarantula."

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Philip Whalen born?

2. What excerpt of Gregory Corso's questions what it means to be Beat and if there is even such a thing?

3. How old was Neal Cassady when his parents divorced?

4. Amiri Baraka studied at what university?

5. What is the name of the evil force that is everywhere in "Howl"?

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