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What school did beat generation icons Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs attend together?
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What Russian author's name is invoked and mispronounced by Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's On the Road?
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Dean Moriarty from the Kerouac's "On the Road" is...
Jack Kerouac
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What was Jack Kerouac's first published novel?
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139 times (40.9%) |
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20 times (5.9%) |
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In Jack Kerouac's novel, Big Sur, what does Jack lament not being able to do anymore?
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51 times (32.9%) |
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From Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans, what was Mardou Fox's real name?
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323 times |
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128 times (16.0%) |
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195 times (24.4%) |
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Jack Kerouac's novel Tristessa derives its name from a Spanish word meaning what?
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443 times |
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335 times (46.1%) |
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medium |
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108 times (14.9%) |
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284 times (39.1%) |
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Which of the following would Jack Kerouac not endorse as characteristic of the "Beat" Generation?
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434 times |
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237 times (34.5%) |
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197 times (28.7%) |
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253 times (36.8%) |
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In Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, what was the name of the narrator?
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10246 times |
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3954 times (25.6%) |
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6292 times (40.7%) |
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5211 times (33.7%) |
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Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is narrated by...
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319 times |
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173 times (32.2%) |
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146 times (27.1%) |
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219 times (40.7%) |
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Which author was briefly imprisoned in Mexico in 1951 for having killed his common-law wife during a game in which they shot at each other?
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225 times |
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124 times (44.8%) |
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medium |
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101 times (36.5%) |
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52 times (18.8%) |
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Which of the titles listed below is the name of Jack Kerouac's first published novel?
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46 times |
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27 times (52.9%) |
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medium |
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19 times (37.3%) |
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5 times (9.8%) |
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In Kerouac's On the Road, what is the name of the Mexican girl Sal Paradise first sees while waiting for a bus to Los Angeles?
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43 times |
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21 times (36.8%) |
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22 times (38.6%) |
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14 times (24.6%) |
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In Kerouac's On the Road, what does Old Bull Lee have in his yard?
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39 times |
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23 times (38.3%) |
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16 times (26.7%) |
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21 times (35.0%) |
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Which of the philosophers listed below is mentioned on the first page of Jack Kerouac's On the Road?
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49 times |
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33 times (41.8%) |
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medium |
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16 times (20.3%) |
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30 times (38.0%) |
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To which of the characters listed below does the narrator make reference in the closing paragraph of Jack Kerouac's On the Road?
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51 times |
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10 times (12.2%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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41 times (50.0%) |
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31 times (37.8%) |
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What writer killed his wife Joan while trying to play William Tell with a glass of water?
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777 times |
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394 times (31.6%) |
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383 times (30.7%) |
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469 times (37.6%) |
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What is the 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac that is a semi-fictional account of his short romance with an African American woman named Alene Lee in New York?
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304 times |
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146 times (22.6%) |
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158 times (24.5%) |
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Jack Kerouac wrote, "...and I wished the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway," in what novel?
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275 times |
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111 times (16.1%) |
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very difficult |
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164 times (23.8%) |
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414 times (60.1%) |
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Jack Kerouac wrote, "Go back to childhood, just eat apples and read your Cathechism - sit on curbstones, to hell with the hot lights of Hollywood," in what book?
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258 times |
| Correct: |
93 times (14.1%) |
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very difficult |
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165 times (25.0%) |
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401 times (60.8%) |
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Jack Kerouac wrote, "I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right," in what book?
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237 times |
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34 times (5.2%) |
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203 times (31.1%) |
| Skipped: |
415 times (63.7%) |
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"To the children and the innocent it's all the same"
This is a quote from which Jack Kerouac novel?
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294 times |
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85 times (12.1%) |
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very difficult |
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209 times (29.8%) |
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408 times (58.1%) |
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Fill in the correct city names for this quote from Jack Kerouac's On the Road:
"________ gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. ________ is a jungle."
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616 times |
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162 times (20.3%) |
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454 times (56.9%) |
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182 times (22.8%) |
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Which of these writers is NOT pictured on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album?
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105 times |
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30 times (20.7%) |
| Difficulty: |
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75 times (51.7%) |
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