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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Purple as an Iris.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Doing Time with Public Enemy No. 1, why is Bukowski deemed unfit for combat?
(a) Excessive sensitivity.
(b) Mental illness.
(c) Poor physical shape.
(d) Excessive aggression.

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

3. In Goodbye Watson, why does the narrator wake up soaking wet?
(a) From sleeping in the bathtub.
(b) It is not explained.
(c) From his friend pouring water on him to wake him up.
(d) Rain from an open window.

4. Where do Bukowski and the woman go one day in Purple as an Iris?
(a) The grocery store.
(b) The barn.
(c) His home.
(d) The post office.

5. Where had Bukowski planned on going after the mechanic?
(a) Home.
(b) A bar.
(c) The horse track.
(d) Grocery store.

Short Answer Questions

1. What singer is Bukowski listening to in I Shot a Man in Reno?

2. Who does Chinasky avoid at a party?

3. Who bails Bukowski out of jail?

4. According to the Too Sensitive narrator, what does a woman's clean kitchen mean?

5. What state is Bukowski in during the summer in My Stay at the Poet's Cottage?

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