On the Fringe: Some American Radical Independents

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1. There was a leader of the American Communist Party who ran four times for the Presidency of the United States. What was his name? Allen Ginsberg Earl Broder Gus Hall Alger Hiss

2. Who was the satirist who founded "The Realist," was a founder of the Yippies and also a member of Ken Kesey's The Merry Pranksters? Gloria Steinhem Abbie Hoffman Paul Krassner Mort Sahl

3. Who was the author of "Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History"? A later book, "Love's Body" proposed that there was a division between eroticism and civilization. Herbert Marcuse Stokley Carmichael Saul Alinsky Norman O. Brown

4. What famous inheritor of the adding machine fortune, a heroin addict (junkie) also was a friend of Allen Ginsberg and author of the famous novel called "The Naked Lunch?" He is famous for his statement that "language is a virus from outer space." Gary Synder William S. Burroughs Norman Cousins Laurence Ferlinghetti

5. What is the name of the idea about language that Noam Chomsky, a famous and sometimes controversial, linguist, introduced? deconstruction cultural materialism structuralism transformational grammar

6. What is the name of the 1963 book authored by Betty Friedan which argued that women were not destined only to stay at home? Ms. Magazine The Second Sex The Feminine Mystique The Female Eunuch

7. What author, originally born in Peru, wrote 12 books dealing with Don Juan and Mesoamerican Shamanism which sold millions of copies in at least 17 or more languages? He presents "nonordinary reality" as a place which people could get to. Kurt Vonnegut George Short J.D. Salinger Carlos Castaneda

8. Who is the co-founder of a world-famous North Beach bookstore in San Francisco? Robert Duncan Kenneth Rexroth Shig Murao Lawrence Ferlinghetti

9. Who was the leader of the Free Speech movement in the 1960s at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964? Mario Savio Abbie Hoffman Jack Weinstein Norman Cousins

10. Who is the American soprano with long dark hair whose voice could be heard singing "We Shall Overcome." Norah Jones Judy Collins Joan Baez Betty Furness

11. Who has been called the "father of community organizing" because of the nature of his work in Chicago? Barack Obama Cesar Chavez Saul Alinsky Dick Gregory

12. What woman labor activist was called "The Miners' Angel"? Mother Jones La Pasionaria Susan B. Anthony Emma Goldman

13. Who was one of the main founders of the American Federation of Labor in 1886? Lucy Parsons John L. Lewis Samuel Gompers Big Bill Haywood

14. Who were two Italian-born American anarchists who were executed in 1927 for a 1920 murder of two pay clerks in Massachusetts? Sacco and Vanzetti A. Mitchell and D. Palmer Lewis and Clark J. Edgar and B. Hoover

15. Who is a radical woman dancer who died in a car accident involving her flowing scarf? Gertrude Stein Martha Graham Isadora Duncan Merce Cunningham

16. What was the name of the group of radical workers in mass production industry who split apart on an industry organized basis in 1935? AFL CIO IWW Knights of Labor

17. Who was the woman poet who was known for these lines of poetry, "My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light." "First Fig" Edna St. Vincent Millay Harriet Monroe Marianne Moore Dorothy Parker

18. What is the name of the area in New York City that is associated with the avant-garde in the arts and with political rebellion? South Side Greenwich Village The Bronx Brooklyn

19. What was the name of the group of people who were violently opposed to Vietnam War? The key word here is "violently." The Beats The Yuppies The Weathermen The Hippies

20. Which of the following was NOT associated with Beat poetry? Norman Mailer Michael McClure Gregory Corso Allen Ginsberg

21. Which of the following was a member of the Black Panther party? Paul Robeson Richard Pryor Huey Newton Jesse Jackson

22. Who is the folk singer who identified with the oppressed and poor and wrote "This Land is Your Land?" Frankie Avalon Bobby Darin Bob Dylan Woody Guthrie

23. "The Chicago Seven" were convicted of inciting a riot and of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention. Their verdict was overturned on appeal. Who is one of the convicted? (He was a co-founder of the Yippies). Andy Warhol Allen Ginsberg Abbie Hoffman Charles Manson

24. Who was the writer who was asked to advise Dr. Martin Luther King on how to use Gandhian principles of non-violence in protests? Elridge Cleaver Coretta Scott King Bayard Ruskin Julian Bond

25. Who is the writer of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"? Joseph Heller Ken Kesey John Updike Saul Bellow