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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 are the other men like on the train in Love it or Leave it?
(a) Angry and silent.
(b) Reserved and polite.
(c) Friendly but loud.
(d) Ragged and boisterous.

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

3. How does the mechanic in A Rain of Women approach Bukowski?
(a) In a hostile manner.
(b) With the average amount of work.
(c) Enthusiastically.
(d) Uncooperatively and lazily.

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

5. How does Bukowski feel about the situation in poetry in Eyes Like the Sky?
(a) It will never change.
(b) It will get worse.
(c) It is already better.
(d) It can change.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Bukowski planned on going after the mechanic?

2. What does Bukowski argue about the human toll of his friend's suggestion?

3. In Doing Time with Public Enemy No. 1, why is Bukowski deemed unfit for combat?

4. Where does Bukowski stay one summer?

5. What does Bukowski buy with his food coupons in Love it or Leave it?

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