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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7 and Section 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Big Jack's girlfriend in section three?
(a) June.
(b) Maggy.
(c) Shelly.
(d) Tina.

2. When asked to begin writing for Bryan's newspaper, Bukowski began with a review of what?
(a) Of Mice and Men.
(b) Papa Hemingway.
(c) This Side of Paradise.
(d) A Rose for Emily.

3. Who is knocking at the door when Bukowski wakes up after the card game fight?
(a) Police.
(b) No one.
(c) Landlady.
(d) Friends.

4. Bukowski ends section five by asking who cares about a dead what?
(a) Drunk.
(b) Cat.
(c) Battery.
(d) Dream.

5. When Bukowski goes to have his clothes cleaned in section six, what clothing item do the store owners sell him instead?
(a) Jeans.
(b) Suit.
(c) Underwear.
(d) T-shirts.

Short Answer Questions

1. While sitting at the racetrack, Bukowski notes that the track doubled the parking fee to what amount?

2. Toward the end of section three, Bukowski gets a letter from his ex-wife. Where does she live?

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

4. In section five Bukowski says he finds there are other things besides the mind, including all BUT WHICH of the following?

5. Bukowski says in his foreword that Bryan is a type of crazy idealist and what?

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