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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Scenes from the Big Time, what does the narrator do all day?
(a) Order around his cell mate.
(b) Cleans his cell.
(c) Cleans the kitchen.
(d) Cleans pigeon droppings.

2. How much money does Harry owe the mechanic?
(a) Fifty dollars.
(b) One hundred dollars.
(c) Seventy dollars.
(d) Two hundred dollars.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Mad Jimmy wearing?

3. Where does Bukowski stay one summer?

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

5. What saves Blaine from being raped?

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