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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. In "Sunflower Sutra," Ginsberg writes that a sunflower is trying to become a _______________.
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Rainbow.
(c) Computer.
(d) Locomotive.

2. Where was Neal Cassady born?
(a) Denver, CO.
(b) Salt Lake City, UT.
(c) Los Angeles, NY.
(d) New York, NY.

3. What excerpt of Gregory Corso's questions what it means to be Beat and if there is even such a thing?
(a) "Marriage."
(b) "Bomb."
(c) "Song of a Generation."
(d) "Variations on a Generation."

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

5. In what year was Jack Kerouac born?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1922.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Rotterdam bombed by the Nazis?

2. In Neal Cassady's letter to Kerouac from Kansas City, Cassady explains how he met a girl named ___________.

3. For whom was Jack Kerouac once a sports writer?

4. Where is the city of Rotterdam, cited in Corso's "Vision of Rotterdam"?

5. What is Neal Cassady's mother's name?

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