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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Doing Time with Public Enemy No. 1, what does Bukowski's non-English speaking cell mate do?
(a) Learns English from Bukowski.
(b) Steals Bukowski's sheets.
(c) Gets out of prison before Bukowski.
(d) Attacks Bukowski.

2. What does Mr. Sneed do with the food Mrs. Connors brings him?
(a) Pretends he likes it.
(b) Refuses it.
(c) Throws it outside the window.
(d) Eats it all enthusiastically.

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

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

5. What is Mary taking Mad Jimmy to court for?
(a) Assault and battery.
(b) Fraud.
(c) Murder.
(d) Theft.

6. Who does Chinasky avoid at a party?
(a) His wife.
(b) A woman.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Belford.

7. Where does Dan go for his new job?
(a) Tucson.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Dallas.
(d) New York.

8. What does Lala do while in the store with her father?
(a) Runs away.
(b) Steals products.
(c) Makes a scene.
(d) Asks him many questions.

9. What state is Bukowski in during the summer in My Stay at the Poet's Cottage?
(a) Missouri.
(b) New York.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Texas.

10. Who does Jack Hendley notice is following him around?
(a) An old man.
(b) A young man.
(c) An old woman.
(d) A young woman.

11. How much money does Harry owe the mechanic?
(a) Seventy dollars.
(b) Fifty dollars.
(c) One hundred dollars.
(d) Two hundred dollars.

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

13. What does Mr. Sneed believe there is no shame in?
(a) Aging.
(b) Working at the post office.
(c) Living simply.
(d) Living extravagantly.

14. In Goodbye Watson, what athlete does the narrator have success with?
(a) Madge.
(b) Watson Jones.
(c) Enrique Balanos.
(d) Jack Hendley.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mad Jimmy wearing?

2. Where does Frank go after receiving the object from the clerk?

3. Who tears an item of Mad Jimmy's?

4. What does the man in Great Poets Die in Steaming Pots of Shit think of Bukowski's employment status?

5. In Rape! Rape!, where does Bukowski follow the woman he sees?

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