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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 Philip Whalen born?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1930.

2. What is the name of John Clellon Holmes' representation of himself in Go?
(a) Peter Henderson.
(b) Paul Hobbes.
(c) Peter Dexter.
(d) Michael Dollen.

3. Where is the city of Rotterdam, cited in Corso's "Vision of Rotterdam"?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Netherlands.
(d) England.

4. In what year was William S. Burroughs born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1929.

5. In what year does Jack Kerouac meet Neal Cassady?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1949.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Allen Ginsberg's fictionalized name in the novel Go?

2. In what year was the novel Go published?

3. Where did Neal Cassady grow up?

4. Whom did Neal Cassady marry in 1948?

5. What was Allen Ginsberg's father's name?

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