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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Allen Ginsberg's most famous work?
(a) "Song."
(b) "Howl."
(c) "America."
(d) "Kaddish."

2. Who became Allen Ginsberg's lover after his move to California?
(a) Mark Patterson.
(b) Adam Schwartz.
(c) Peter Orlovsky.
(d) Michael Orlovsky.

3. The Beat Generation started off in what city?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Paris.
(d) New York.

4. When did Herbert Huncke meet William S. Burroughs?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1947.

5. In what year was John Clellon Holmes born?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1919.

6. In what year did Neal Cassady die?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1969.

7. Which is the first of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poems featured in Some San Francisco Renaissance Poets Part One?
(a) "Coney Island of the Mind."
(b) "America."
(c) "Dog."
(d) "Lost Highway."

8. In the second excerpt from On the Road, where are the two main characters initially?
(a) Wyoming.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) California.

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

10. Herbert Huncke introduced William S. Burroughs to _____________.
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Peyote.
(d) Heroin.

11. To whom does Allen Ginsberg write from a mental institution in "Howl"?
(a) Carl Solomon.
(b) Jack Kerouac.
(c) Mark Patterson.
(d) Neal Cassady.

12. "Kaddish" is a poem about the life and death of whom?
(a) Naomi Ginsberg.
(b) Sarah Ginsberg.
(c) Natalie Ginsberg.
(d) Alexis Ginsberg.

13. "Song" by Allen Ginsberg is a simple poem about ____________.
(a) Food.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Peace.
(d) Love.

14. What is the title of Neal Cassady's unfinished autobiography?
(a) "The Fast Years."
(b) "The Kesey Bus."
(c) "The First Third."
(d) "The Final Third."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Jack Kerouac born?

2. What were the charges brought against the poem "Howl"?

3. What is Jack Kerouac's fictionalized name in the novel Go?

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

5. Where did Neal Cassady grow up?

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