Beat Generation Literature: But is it Beat? Identifying Quotes Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Beat Generation Literature? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which author saw the greatest minds of his generation naked "dragged off of rooftops waving genitals and manuscripts?"
Allen Ginsberg
William Burroughs
Jack Kerouac
Gregory Corso
Q. Which poet would have written much of his poetry in Haiku form?
Gregory Corso
Allen Ginsberg
Philip Whalen
William Burroughs
Q. What major Beat characteristic is addressed in the following passage: "excusers of telepathic sensitivity, osteopaths of the spirit, investigators of infractions denounced by bland paranoid chess players, servers of fragmentary warrants taken down in hebephrenic shorthand charging unspeakable mutilations."
Alternative sexuality
Post-modern
Buddhism
Obscenity
Q. Which of the following does not describe a Beat poem?
Impersonal
Cross-cultural
Spontaneous
Free form
Q. Which of the following is not the subject matter of a Beat novel?
An inter-racial relationship
Life as a drug addict
Cars and girls
The life of a high society New York socialite