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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 Night Streets of Madness, where do Bukowski and the young poet sit?
(a) Inside the house.
(b) In the park.
(c) In the car.
(d) On a porch.

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) The poet should have stopped it.
(d) It was wrong.

3. Of what kind of group have the boys in The Big Pot Game copied their language from?
(a) Hepcats of the 1990s.
(b) Groups of the 1980s.
(c) Hepcats of the 1920s.
(d) Hippies of the 1970s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Dan Skorski quit?

2. In The Big Pot Game, what do the young men have, according to Bukowski?

3. When death comes, what does Bukowski do in A Popular Man?

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

5. Why does Gordon marry Carol?

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