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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9 and Section 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what Italian city does section five take place?
(a) Milan.
(b) Naples.
(c) Rome.
(d) Venice.

2. In response to the assassination, Bukowski says HE didn't murder all BUT WHICH of the following?
(a) Malcom X.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) Martin Luther King Jr.
(d) George Lincoln Rockwell.

3. What famous author does Bukowski cite in section nine?
(a) Nietsche.
(b) Sartre.
(c) Camus.
(d) Whitman.

4. According to Bukowski, what percentage of the time is he correct about the results of the boxing matches at the Olympic?
(a) 20.
(b) 90.
(c) 30.
(d) 50.

5. Which of the friends says, in section ten, that some men just aren't any good with women and that he personally never has been?
(a) Bukowski.
(b) Anderson.
(c) Bird.
(d) Moss.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his introduction of Kerouac, Bukowski says Kerouac personally knows all BUT WHICH of the following poets?

2. Which horse won the 6th race at the end of section eight?

3. Which writer does Bukowski quote in section five as saying, "to have great poets we need great audiences?"

4. As section eight begins, how much money is Bukowski down?

5. When Bukowski arrives in his room in the Village in New York, what item does he find in the room that he considers useless?

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