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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the narrator at the end of section thirteen?
(a) He passes out.
(b) He goes to work.
(c) His girlfriend shows up.
(d) He dies.

2. As section ten opens, which team has won the ballgame?
(a) Tigers.
(b) Braves.
(c) Pirates.
(d) Astros.

3. In the foreword, Bukowski says that the book contains selections from about _____ months worth of columns.
(a) 3.
(b) 14.
(c) 24.
(d) 9.

4. When introducing readers to Kerouac, Bukowski mentions that his friend is from which part of New York?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Bronx.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Queens.

5. When Neal is killed, which friend calls Bukowski to tell him?
(a) Bryan.
(b) Kerouac.
(c) Jason.
(d) Jack.

6. What item does Bukowski steal from L as they prepare to leave the old man's house?
(a) Books.
(b) Wallet.
(c) Dog.
(d) Vase.

7. What is the name of the woman Moss calls toward the end of section ten?
(a) Jane.
(b) Madeline.
(c) Shareen.
(d) Mary Lou.

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

9. Which famous holiday newspaper cover did Bryan have a problem with when he was fired?
(a) New Year.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Ramadan.
(d) Rosh Hashanah.

10. In section thirteen, the narrator has a post card where a professor states that the narrator is the best poet since which of the following?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Ginsberg.
(d) Eliot.

11. In section eighteen, Bukowski tells the story of trying to save a man who attempted suicide by what method?
(a) Starvation.
(b) Gun.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Gas.

12. What does the little girl in section eleven call her father?
(a) Papa.
(b) Fry.
(c) Daddy.
(d) Freddie.

13. In what year did Bukowski write the foreword?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1969.

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

15. After relating the rant from the sportscaster, Bukowski says that _____ out of 60 men on the street are cuckoo.
(a) 59.
(b) 30.
(c) 25.
(d) 60.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In section ten, at whose apartment are the friends spending Saturday night?

3. As section one opens, what friend is Bukowski sitting with?

4. What does Bukowski's friend carry in an elastic strap on his arm in section sixteen?

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

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