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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mad Jimmy wearing?
(a) A brand new pair of shoes.
(b) A brand new shirt.
(c) A brand new Panama hat.
(d) An old Panama hat.

2. What is the weather like where Bukowski is staying in My Stay at the Poet's Cottage?
(a) Unbearably hot.
(b) Cool.
(c) Cold.
(d) Average weather.

3. In Scenes from the Big Time, which inmate serves time in the hole?
(a) Blaine.
(b) Joe Statz.
(c) Sears.
(d) The narrator.

4. In Goodbye Watson, what does the narrator say that the track teaches him?
(a) Everyday life experiences.
(b) His strengths.
(c) Nothing.
(d) His weaknesses.

5. What state is Bukowski in during the summer in My Stay at the Poet's Cottage?
(a) New York.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Texas.
(d) Missouri.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bukowski spend most of his time in My Stay at the Poet's Cottage?

2. Where does Jack Hendley arrive in Cunt and Kant and a Happy Home?

3. In Goodbye Watson, why does the narrator wake up soaking wet?

4. Who tears an item of Mad Jimmy's?

5. What does the Too Sensitive narrator's girlfriend tell him about Benny Adimson?

(see the answer key)

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