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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the foreword, Bukowski mentions that Bryan's beard is what color?
(a) Black.
(b) Blonde.
(c) Red.
(d) Brown.

2. The baseball-playing angel in section two does interviews with all BUT WHICH of the following magazines?
(a) Time.
(b) Look.
(c) Life.
(d) Newsweek.

3. 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) A Rose for Emily.
(d) This Side of Paradise.

4. What nationality is L's butler in section fifteen?
(a) French.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Russian.

5. During section nine Bukowski gives a quote from Reagan. What political office does he say Reagan holds at this time?
(a) Governor.
(b) President.
(c) None.
(d) Senator.

6. In the letter Bukowski's ex-wife sends him, she says that he should attend poetry readings at which church?
(a) Evangelical Church.
(b) Methodist Church.
(c) Baptist Church.
(d) Unitarian Church.

7. What time is it in section thirteen as the narrator wakes?
(a) 12 a.m.
(b) 8 p.m.
(c) 3 a.m.
(d) 5 p.m.

8. 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.

9. As section one opens, what friend is Bukowski sitting with?
(a) Wolfe.
(b) Elf.
(c) George.
(d) Sam.

10. In section sixteen, how old is Bukowski's friend?
(a) 16.
(b) 32.
(c) 49.
(d) 21.

11. In section twelve, which of the following places does Bukowski NOT mention as a religious con town?
(a) New York.
(b) Dallas.
(c) Philly.
(d) L.A.

12. What is the name of the police officer who turns Henry's body over at the end of section seventeen?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Thompson.
(c) Eddie.
(d) Weaver.

13. After leaving New York at the end of section six, to which town does Bukowski go?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) Denver.
(c) Omaha.
(d) Joplin.

14. At the end of section sixteen, Bukowski does what?
(a) Gets drunk.
(b) Writes.
(c) Goes to work.
(d) Sleeps.

15. Toward the end of section four, the babysitter keeps comparing Bukowski to which famous writer?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Steinbeck.
(c) Ginsberg.
(d) Kerouac.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his foreword, what does Bukowski say is the name of John Bryan's underground newspaper?

2. What does Freddie use to kill Marty when Marty and the mother come to pick up the little girl?

3. As section nine begins, Bukowski says that the main problem with the Kennedy assassination is that we lose gains in all BUT WHICH of the following areas?

4. What is the name of Big Jack's girlfriend in section three?

5. In what Italian city does section five take place?

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