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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Bad Trip.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bukowski discover what he does in A Bad Trip?
(a) On an acid trip.
(b) After months of thinking.
(c) After a conversation.
(d) After a moment's reflection.

2. In Notes on the Pest, what does a pest talk to Bukowski about at the diner?
(a) His personal life.
(b) His work.
(c) His doughnut.
(d) His coffee.

3. Where does Jack Hendley arrive in Cunt and Kant and a Happy Home?
(a) Prison.
(b) The casino.
(c) The horse track.
(d) Rehabilitation.

4. What is the name of Bukowski's friend who shares a woman with him in the beginning of No Stockings?
(a) Roy.
(b) Dan.
(c) Barney.
(d) Mad Jimmy.

5. What does Bukowski wonder about himself in Notes on a Pest?
(a) Whether he is loveable.
(b) Whether he is intelligent.
(c) Whether he is a pest.
(d) Whether he is a good husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bukowski beaten with in Love It or Leave It?

2. Where do Bukowski and the woman go one day in Purple as an Iris?

3. What does Bukowski give the fat woman's son in Rape! Rape!?

4. Who does the woman sleep with first in I Shot a Man in Reno?

5. In One for Walter Lowenfels, what does the woman believe in?

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