Jack Kerouac
The Cult of High Experience
The Beats
IT!
100

The novel that turned him into a star over night

What is On The Road?

100

On the road predicts life as an improvised ___

What is journey?
100

Kerouac's life and work cannot be fully understood without the context of __

What is the Beat Generation?

100

The character in On the Road that was obsessed with finding "IT!"

What is Dean?

200

The college that he attended that exposed him to the excitment of New York City.

What is Columbia University

200

Swartz calls Dean the ___ of experience

What is "High Priest?"

200

The person that was known as the resistant "leader" or "father" of the Beats

What is Kerouac?

200

An example of IT! could be ___

What is a musical festival, a road trip, or a solo camping trip?

300

The common themes that he lived by

What is rebellious and free-spirited?

300

Argued that novel is a performance of __

What is experience?

300

Robert J. Milewsky says that Kerouac became the "hero of the __"

What is alienated?
300

"Dharma" means...

What is life purpose?

400

Kerouac's very first novel

What is The Town and the City?

400

The cult of high experience is defined by Swartz as...

What is the sensation of a raw, unfiltered expereinces as a path to meaning.

400

The political pary that the beat generation gave a degree of cultural style in the 1960's

What is the political left?

400

Kerouac was influenced by this religious practice

What is Zen Buddhism?
500

The style that he wrote his first book in "The Town and The City"

What is the style of Thomas Wolfe?

500

Swartz states that lifestyle is ___

What is destructive?

500

Kerouac's ideas closely connected to the social movement of __

What is the 60s?

500

Dean witnesses a ___ musician capturing IT?

What is Jazz?