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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Neal Cassady's parents divorce?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1942.

3. The character "Elsie John" in the poem by Herbert Huncke is a __________.
(a) Fisherman.
(b) Housewife.
(c) Hermaphrodite.
(d) Zoologist.

4. What is Neal Cassady's mother's name?
(a) Marie.
(b) Anne.
(c) Maude.
(d) Naomi.

5. When was Rotterdam bombed by the Nazis?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1938.

6. What were the charges brought against the poem "Howl"?
(a) Bigotry.
(b) Obscenity.
(c) Plagiarism.
(d) Violence.

7. Where was Gregory Corso born?
(a) Sacramento, CA.
(b) Boston, MA.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) Portland, OR.

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

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

10. Whom did Neal Cassady marry in 1948?
(a) Joan Anderson.
(b) Sarah Pomeray.
(c) Marie Smith.
(d) Carolyn Robinson.

11. In what year did Allen Ginsberg meet Neal Cassady?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1942.

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

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

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

15. What is Jack Kerouac's fictionalized name in the novel Go?
(a) Albert Ancke.
(b) Paul Hobbes.
(c) Gene Pasternak.
(d) Hart Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What excerpt of Gregory Corso's questions what it means to be Beat and if there is even such a thing?

2. How old was Neal Cassady when he was first arrested for theft?

3. Who is the author of the poem "A Berry Feast"?

4. When was Philip Whalen born?

5. Where was Jack Kerouac born?

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