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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Big Pot Game.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What place does Bukowski describe in Purple as an Iris?
(a) A college campus.
(b) A hospital.
(c) An insane asylum.
(d) His hometown.

2. Where did the narrator of Goodbye Watson go before he started attending horse races?
(a) Casino.
(b) Boxing club.
(c) College.
(d) Poker nights.

3. What is the weather like where Bukowski is staying in My Stay at the Poet's Cottage?
(a) Unbearably hot.
(b) Cold.
(c) Average weather.
(d) Cool.

4. In Animal Crackers In My Soup, where has Carol spent time before?
(a) Prison.
(b) The hospital.
(c) Abroad.
(d) A madhouse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose birthday is it towards the end of One for Walter Lowenfels?

2. In the story Great Poets Die in Steaming Pots of Shit, where does Bukowski work?

3. What job does Dan Skorski quit?

4. Where does the foreman in Love it or Leave it distribute cans of food?

5. In Reunion, from where does Harry return home?

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