Beat Movement Quiz Two

This quiz is over the work and life of Allen Ginsberg and the week's lectures, six through ten. All the answers to the questions are in the poems or the lectures. Take the quiz and then click on submit when ready to send. Be sure to give your name and a valid email address. I will remove the quiz link from Beat Diner no earlier than midnight Tuesday.

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(1) What is the title of Allen Ginsberg's most famous poem?

"Song of Myself"
"A Supermarket in California"
"Charge of the Light Brigade"
"Howl"

 

(2) The poem "Howl" was first read at which of the following?

Modern Museum of Art
Woodstock
Six Gallery
A bar in Greenwich Village

 

(3) Which of the following poets does Allen Ginsberg emulate in "Howl"?

William Blake
William Wordsworth
Chaucer
Walt Whitman

 

(4) Growing up, Allen Ginsberg was exposed to sympathetic ideas about

Communism and Socialism.
Zen Buddhism.
War.
The American military.

 

(5) "Kaddish" is based on Naomi's life and death. She is

Allen Ginsberg's aunt.
Allen Ginsberg's sister.
Jack Kerouac's mother.
Allen Ginsberg's mother.

 

(6) Where does Naomi die?

At home
In a car accident in New York
In a mental institution
In the Soviet Union

 

(7) What does Naomi best symbolize among the following choices:

Hate
War
Buddha
Allen Ginsberg's muse

 

(8) What prominent Beat writer is mentioned in "Sunflower Sutra"?

Neal Cassady
William Burroughs
Gregory Corso
Jack Kerouac.

 

(9) Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded

the 1960s counterculture movement.
a charity for struggling writers.
a foundation to fight against obscenity laws.
City Lights Bookstore.

 

(10) What do some of Allen Ginsberg's poem argue about "the mind"?