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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) After months of thinking.
(b) On an acid trip.
(c) After a conversation.
(d) After a moment's reflection.

2. What friend does Bukowski visit in I shot a man in Reno?
(a) Johnny.
(b) Derek.
(c) Jim.
(d) Luke.

3. What does Bukowski argue about the human toll of his friend's suggestion?
(a) He thinks some humans need to be lost for any great change.
(b) The toll is worth the aftermath.
(c) The cost is too great for such little progress.
(d) He is fine with it as long as he is okay.

4. In Purple as an Iris, what does Bukowski sell?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Books.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Alcohol.

5. What does Bukowski want to ask the person he imagines having a conversation with in In Night Street of Madness?
(a) To come home.
(b) Why the person killed himself.
(c) What he meant in his letter.
(d) Why he left him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bukowski ask the woman to do after he takes a bath?

2. What does Bukowski say in Notes on a Pest that every man has inside him?

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

4. What place does Bukowski describe in Purple as an Iris?

5. In One for Walter Lowenfels, who likes the woman's poems?

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