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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. In Notes on the Pest, what does a pest talk to Bukowski about at the diner?
(a) His coffee.
(b) His personal life.
(c) His doughnut.
(d) His work.

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

3. What does the man in Great Poets Die in Steaming Pots of Shit think of Bukowski's employment status?
(a) He sees it as normal.
(b) He cannot understand.
(c) He gives no opinion.
(d) He praises his work at the post office.

4. What does the Too Sensitive narrator's girlfriend tell him about Benny Adimson?
(a) He has been laid off.
(b) He has been hired.
(c) He has been promoted.
(d) He quit.

5. Where is Chinasky's flight headed?
(a) Burbank.
(b) New York.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) Seattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What place does Bukowski describe in Purple as an Iris?

2. How does Bukowski brush off the man in Great Poets Die in Steaming Pots of Shit?

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

4. What is Bukowski sick with in A Popular Man?

5. What does Bukowski say about acid and the item in conjunction with it?

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