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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro," Ferlinghetti is convinced that Castro's cause is ___________.
(a) Just.
(b) Powerless.
(c) Insane.
(d) Evil.

2. Where was Ray Bremser born?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) Jersey City, NJ.
(c) San Francisco, CA.
(d) New Orleans, LA.

3. When did Amiri Baraka adopt his current name?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1967.

4. What is railed against in the poem "A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring"?
(a) Children.
(b) Conformity.
(c) Love.
(d) Marriage.

5. Where did Allen Ginsberg move in the 1950s?
(a) Berkeley, CA.
(b) Big Sur, CA.
(c) Sacramento, CA.
(d) San Francisco, CA.

Short Answer Questions

1. What jazz musician does Jack Kerouac write about in "Mexico City Blues"?

2. Amiri Baraka studied at what university?

3. What kind of drivers does Gary Snyder refer to in "Night Highway Ninety-Nine"?

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

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

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