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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the dog looking at questioningly in the poem "Dog"?
(a) A rabbit.
(b) A telephone.
(c) A flower.
(d) A gramophone.

2. In his letters to Kerouac, whom does Cassady write that he has been sleeping with, but her mother doesn't like him?
(a) Patricia.
(b) Mary.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Joan.

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

4. Where did Jack Kerouac attend college?
(a) NYU.
(b) UCLA.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Princeton.

5. How old was Neal Cassady when he was first arrested for theft?
(a) 14.
(b) 18.
(c) 10.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first excerpted selection of Gregory Corso's in the text?

2. When was Gregory Corso born?

3. Which is the first of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poems featured in Some San Francisco Renaissance Poets Part One?

4. What is the name of the West Coast literary revolution which was heralded largely by the Six Gallery reading?

5. When was Rotterdam bombed by the Nazis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What political references are made in the poem "America"?

2. Describe the exposition from the beginning excerpt of "On the Road." Who are the characters introduced?

3. Describe William S. Burroughs' excerpt from "Junky." What is significant about this subject?

4. What repetition is used in the "Peyote Poem"? Why?

5. What does Ann Charters write about Carl Solomon in his biographical information? What is his work about?

6. Who is Neal Cassady? How is he introduced in the text?

7. Where does Jack Kerouac refer to his own style of writing in "On the Road"? What metaphor does the author make?

8. Describe the subject of "Visions of Cody."

9. What political allusions are used in "One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro"?

10. What do Cassady's letters to Kerouac reveal about him?

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