This individual invented the term "Beats" and is known as the founder of the generation.
Who is Jack Kerouac
100
This word means "tired" or "beaten down"
What is "Beats"
100
These are the two places that the Beat generation took place in.
What is New York and San Francisco
100
"I pump him full of lost watches."
What is "Birthplace Revisited"
100
This is the religion that greatly influenced Jack Kerouac
What is Buddhism
200
This writer wrote "Birthplace Revisited" and often wrote about his life as a merchant seaman and manual laborer.
Who is Gregory Corso
200
This term was used by the media to describe the stereotype of the beginning of the Beats generation
What is Beatniks
200
This is the university that the poets first met at.
What is Columbia University
200
"A three-day-long rain from the east--
an terminable talking, talking
of no consequence--patter, patter, patter. "
What is "Backward"
200
The people of the generation developed a respect for this.
What is land and creatures
300
This poet wrote "Howl" and had a love affair with Neal Cassady.
Who is Allen Ginsberg
300
This time period was related with the Beats generation and was focused on the poetic activity taking place around San Francisco
What is San Francisco Renaissance
300
The year when Jack Kerouac first invented the phrase "Beats generation".
What is 1948
300
"Shall see the stars in new clusters
The beaches changed
The mountains shifted"
What is "A Lesson in Geography"
300
These were the two movements that influenced the Beats generation
What is Romanticism and Modernism
400
This poet was linked to the San Francisco Renaissance and wrote "A Lesson in Geography".
Who is Kenneth Rexroth
400
The term "Beatnik" eventually shifted to this term in the 1960s
What is hippie
400
This is the year when the Beats generation officially started and was known everywhere.
What is 1955
400
"my words'll be writ in gold
& preserved in libraries like
Finnegans Wake & Visions of Neal"
What is "Daydreams of Ginsberg"
400
This country's surrealism was a major influence for the generation
What is France
500
This poet was one of few female poets of the generation
Who is Diane DiPrima
500
This form of music was greatly influenced by the Beats generation and was taking place during this era.
What is Jazz music
500
The Beats generation poets eventually developed a reputation as this.
What is new bohemian hedonists.
500
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix,"
What is "Howl"
500
People of the movement began to have an opposition to this.