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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the girlfriend scoff at the narrator's offer in Too Sensitive?
(a) She thinks Benny is too sensitive.
(b) She thinks Benny is too good for that job.
(c) She thinks Benny is too arrogant for the job.
(d) She thinks Benny is not skilled enough.

2. What does Duke do at night?
(a) Goes to work at the grocery store.
(b) Reads Lala a bedtime story.
(c) Robs a liquor store.
(d) Leaves his family forever.

3. 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) Suffocation.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Loneliness.

4. What does Bukowski's friend in A Quiet Conversation Piece study to be?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A priest.
(c) A rabbi.
(d) A rector.

5. Where does Dan spend much of his time while at work?
(a) In Signo's house.
(b) At the post office.
(c) At Griffo's.
(d) In his own office.

6. What author does the narrator name in describing something about himself in Goodbye Watson?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) Jack Hendley.
(c) Charles Bukowski.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

7. Where does Bukowski stay one summer?
(a) The Poet's Cottage.
(b) A hotel.
(c) A dorm room.
(d) A friend's house.

8. What gift does Bukowksi give the couple for their wedding?
(a) A miniature coffin.
(b) A painting.
(c) A toaster.
(d) A miniature house.

9. Where does the foreman in Love it or Leave it distribute cans of food?
(a) California.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Texas.
(d) Arizona.

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

11. Where does Dan go rather than going home?
(a) Tuscon.
(b) Dallas.
(c) Tijuana.
(d) Albany.

12. Why is Bukowski incarcerated in Doing Time with Public Enemy No. 1?
(a) For robbing a store.
(b) For dodging the draft.
(c) For attacking someone.
(d) For murdering someone.

13. Where is Frank Evans staying in An Evil Town?
(a) An apartment.
(b) A house.
(c) A community center.
(d) A hotel.

14. What does the desk clerk tell Frank?
(a) A woman waits for him.
(b) He has to leave his room.
(c) He has news for him.
(d) He loves him.

15. What does Bukowski give the fat woman's son in Rape! Rape!?
(a) A hug.
(b) A dollar.
(c) A toy.
(d) A cookie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jack Hendley arrive in Cunt and Kant and a Happy Home?

2. What does Frank describe to his mother?

3. What does Mr. Sneed do with the food Mrs. Connors brings him?

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

5. Where does Bukowski return home to at the end of My Stay at the Poet's Cottage?

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