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

2. In the story Great Poets Die in Steaming Pots of Shit, where does Bukowski work?
(a) Post office.
(b) Grocery store.
(c) College campus.
(d) Publisher.

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

4. In Goodbye Watson, what does the narrator say that the track teaches him?
(a) Nothing.
(b) His weaknesses.
(c) His strengths.
(d) Everyday life experiences.

5. In Love it or Leave It, what does Bukowski find to sleep in?
(a) A Mustang.
(b) An empty train car.
(c) An empty house.
(d) A Cadillac.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money do Harry and Madge have in Reunion?

2. What saves Blaine from being raped?

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

4. What does Dan say about Bukowski's writing in No Stockings?

5. What does the man interpret one of Bukowski's poems to be about in Great Poets Die in Steaming Pots of Shit?

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