How well do you know the Beats?

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1. You have to know this. Who's the father of the Beats?

Allen Ginsberg
William S. Burroughs
Walt Whitman
Jack Kerouac
Neal Cassady
Gregory Corso
Herbert Huncke
John Clellon Holmes


2. "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"

Oh yeah?
Corso's "Bomb"
Orlovsky's "My bed is covered yellow"
Bob Kaufman's "On"
Ferlinghetti's "Constantly Risking Absurdity"
Corso's "Marriage"
Ginsberg's "Howl"
I have no idea, man...


3. The greatest ecologist and also a ranger among the Beats was:

Gary Snider
Michael McClure
Frank O' Hara
Diane Di Prima
Jack Kerouac
William S. Burroughs
Ken Kesey
dunno


4. Who wrote "The ticket that exploded"?

Creeley
Levertov
Welch
Kerouac
Burroughs
Waldman
Rexroth
Bukowski


5. Dean Moriarty is

Neal
Gregory
Peter
William
Kerouac's brother
Allen
Kerouac's publisher
a name?


6. You have to know the Jazz terms. Who's Bird?

a Jazz band
Miles Davis
Louis Armstrong
Ella Fitzgerald
Charlie Parker
John Coltrane
Nina Simone
pass


7. Inspired by Kerouac's "On the Road" a band made a song called "Cassady". Which band?

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
King Crimson
The Allman Brothers
The Byrds
The Grateful Dead
Pink Floyd
Eagles


8. My witness is...

God
the universe
fear
the sheltering sky
the empty universe
the empty sky
the whispering universe
the rain


9. Which is not Burroughs' quote?

"Word is a virus"
"Madness is confusion of levels of fact...Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels"
"Shoot the bitch and write a book. That's what I did"
Burroughs?
"It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now"
"Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece"
"I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money"
really don't know


10. Where did the term Beatnik come from?

from a famous novel from the 19th century
from a poem written by Corso
from the Russian satelite Sputnik
from the word "putnik" (traveller)
from a 50's commercial
It was invented by Ginsberg
It was invented by William Carlos Williams
dunno

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