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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Some San Francisco Renaissance Poets Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Neal Cassady born?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1920.

2. In what year did Gregory Corso meet Allen Ginsberg?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1950.

3. What is Allen Ginsberg's fictionalized name in the novel Go?
(a) David Stofsky.
(b) Paul Hobbes.
(c) Albert Ancke.
(d) Hart Kennedy.

4. In what year was Allen Ginsberg born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1926.

5. Where did Allen Ginsberg grow up?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) Patterson, NJ.
(c) Princeton, NJ.
(d) Chicago, IL.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event is one of the central focuses of "America"?

2. Which is the first of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poems featured in Some San Francisco Renaissance Poets Part One?

3. Whom does Neal Cassady write about visiting in the hospital after a suicide attempt in his letters to Kerouac?

4. In "Sunflower Sutra," Ginsberg writes that a sunflower is trying to become a _______________.

5. Who is the author of the poem "Plus Ca Change"?

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