Beat Movement Spontaneous Prose — Quiz

Question 1

Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.” the door knocks and it's the desk keeper of the flop hotel with silver rims and white hair and clean clothes and sickly potbelly said he was from Rocky Mount and looked like yes, he had been desk clerk of the Nash Buncome Association hotel down there in 50 successive heatwave summers The excerpt best illustrates Jack Kerouac’s use of

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dialogue.

Question 2

Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.” O well anyway I'll be learning eventually to like the railroad and Sherman will like me some day, and anyway another day another dollar. The narrator of this excerpt can best be described as

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optimistic.

Question 3

Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.” It was the fantastic drowse and drum hum of lum mum afternoon nathin' to do, ole Frisco with end of land sadness——the people——the alley full of trucks and cars of businesses nearabouts and nobody knew or far from cared who I was all my life three thousand five hundred miles from birth-O opened up and at last belonged to me in Great America. Which best describes the effect of the author’s word choice?

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It creates a musical, rhythmic quality.

Question 4

Based on “The Railroad Earth,” Jack Kerouac would most likely agree with which statement?

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Writing should be spontaneous and unconventional.

Question 5

Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.” It's all in California, it's all a sea, I swim out of it in afternoons of sun hot meditation in my jeans with head on handkerchief on brakeman’s lantern or (if not working) on books, I look up at blue sky of perfect lostpurity and feel the warp of wood of old America beneath me Which best describes how Kerouac creates rhythm in this excerpt?

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He uses repetition.

Question 6

Which line from “The Railroad Earth” best illustrates the influence of jazz music on Jack Kerouac’s style?

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the reading rooms tick tock bigclock with creak chair and slantboards

Question 7

Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.” I'd take walks up Harrison and the boomcrash of truck traffic towards the glorious girders of the Oakland Bay Bridge that you could see after climbing Harrison Hill a little like radar machine of eternity in the sky, huge, in the blue, by pure clouds crossed, gulls, idiot cars streaking to destinations on its undinal boom across shmoshwaters flocked up by winds and news of San Rafael storms and flash boats. The syntax of the excerpt helps to create a feeling of

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movement.

Question 8

Jack Kerouac’s “The Railroad Earth” is best described as

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spontaneous prose.

Question 9

Which line from “The Railroad Earth” best illustrates Jack Kerouac’s nonstandard or invented words?

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or some of them I can now as I leave hear beginning to disfawdle to wake in their rooms and with their moans and yorks and scrapings

Question 10

Why is “The Railroad Earth” considered both poetry and prose?

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It is a flowing narrative that has poetic rhythm but no line breaks.

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