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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through My Stay in the Poet's Cottage.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Bukowski stay one summer?
(a) A hotel.
(b) The Poet's Cottage.
(c) A friend's house.
(d) A dorm room.

3. What does the man interpret one of Bukowski's poems to be about in Great Poets Die in Steaming Pots of Shit?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Love.
(c) Suffocation.
(d) Suicide.

4. What author does the narrator name in describing something about himself in Goodbye Watson?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Jack Hendley.
(d) Charles Bukowski.

5. In the story Great Poets Die in Steaming Pots of Shit, where does Bukowski work?
(a) College campus.
(b) Post office.
(c) Grocery store.
(d) Publisher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lala do while in the store with her father?

2. How much money do Harry and Madge have in Reunion?

3. In Scenes from the Big Time, what does the narrator do all day?

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

5. Who does Chinasky avoid at a party?

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