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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Bad Trip.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Night Streets of Madness, where do Bukowski and the young poet sit?
(a) In the car.
(b) Inside the house.
(c) In the park.
(d) On a porch.

2. What does Bukowski say about acid and the item in conjunction with it?
(a) One trumps the other.
(b) They grow in popularity simultaneously.
(c) They don't go well together.
(d) One is replacing the other.

3. In A Quiet Conversation Piece, what does his friend believe the United States needs?
(a) A revolution.
(b) Love.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Peace.

4. Whose birthday is it towards the end of One for Walter Lowenfels?
(a) Tina's.
(b) Walter Lowenfels'.
(c) The woman's.
(d) The man's.

5. What does Bukowski want to ask the person he imagines having a conversation with in In Night Street of Madness?
(a) Why the person killed himself.
(b) To come home.
(c) What he meant in his letter.
(d) Why he left him.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Scenes from the Big Time, what does the narrator do all day?

2. Who tears an item of Mad Jimmy's?

3. Where does the foreman in Love it or Leave it distribute cans of food?

4. What saves Blaine from being raped?

5. What is acid's virtue, according to Bukowski?

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