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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Notes on the Pest.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion does Bukowski feel within himself in A Rain of Women?
(a) Shame.
(b) Satisfaction.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Happiness.

2. What does Bukowski say to the young poet about the incident between the boy and the old man in In Night Streets of Madness?
(a) It was just.
(b) It is his fault.
(c) It was wrong.
(d) The poet should have stopped it.

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

4. What is the name of the song that Bukowski is listening to in I Shot a Man in Reno?
(a) Folsom Prison.
(b) Summertime.
(c) A change gonna come.
(d) I shot a man in Reno.

5. In Beer and Poets and Talk, what does Bukowski think of the poets?
(a) Great poets are gone forever.
(b) Many of the greats have died.
(c) The best of them are emerging.
(d) Many of the greats still live.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Doing Time with Public Enemy No. 1, what does Bukowski's non-English speaking cell mate do?

2. What does Bukowski think comic strips used to be?

3. When does one particular pest call Bukowski?

4. In Goodbye Watson, why does the narrator wake up soaking wet?

5. What are the other men like on the train in Love it or Leave it?

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