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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Too Sensitive.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator offer to his girlfriend in Too Sensitive?
(a) To get her a job at the post office.
(b) To get Benny a job at the post office.
(c) To get her a job at the workshop.
(d) To get Benny a job as his editor.

2. Who tears an item of Mad Jimmy's?
(a) Izzy Steiner.
(b) Mary.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Sears.

3. What does the Too Sensitive narrator's girlfriend tell him about Benny Adimson?
(a) He has been hired.
(b) He has been promoted.
(c) He quit.
(d) He has been laid off.

4. What profession does Benny have?
(a) Poet.
(b) Postal worker.
(c) Factory worker.
(d) Teacher.

5. According to the Too Sensitive narrator, what does a woman's clean kitchen mean?
(a) She is independent.
(b) She loves her man enough to clean for him.
(c) She is dull and conditioned.
(d) She hates dirt.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in Too Sensitive, what does a man's clean kitchen mean?

2. Where does Bukowski stay one summer?

3. In Goodbye Watson, what does the narrator say that the track teaches him?

4. In Reunion, from where does Harry return home?

5. In Scenes from the Big Time, which inmate serves time in the hole?

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