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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the orangutan in Animal Crackers in My Soup?
(a) Carol.
(b) Gordon.
(c) Nathan.
(d) Bilbo.

2. What is Bukowski's current delusion in The Blanket?
(a) His neighbor tries to shoot him.
(b) The water tries to drown him.
(c) Tiny men try to electrocute him.
(d) A blanket tries to strangle him.

3. In Notes of a Potential Suicide, what does Bukowski fail at?
(a) His marriage.
(b) A test.
(c) His speech.
(d) Picking up girls.

4. What does Bukowski notice on his hands at the end of The Blanket?
(a) Blood.
(b) Burns.
(c) Bruises.
(d) Ink.

5. What is acid's virtue, according to Bukowski?
(a) It has no virtues.
(b) Its ability to put someone to sleep.
(c) Its ability to show truth that is not evident to others.
(d) Its ability to distort truth.

6. What is the name of the man's daughter in One for Walter Lowenfels?
(a) Madge.
(b) Tina.
(c) Lala.
(d) Vera.

7. 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) The poet should have stopped it.
(b) It was wrong.
(c) It is his fault.
(d) It was just.

8. What delusion does Bukowski have of tiny men in The Blanket?
(a) They converse with him.
(b) They are trying to electrocute him.
(c) They write him a book.
(d) They try to drown him.

9. Who does the woman sleep with first in I Shot a Man in Reno?
(a) Luke.
(b) Bukowski.
(c) Jim.
(d) She sleeps with no one.

10. What other distortion of truth exists, according to Bukowski in Eyes Like the Sky?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Workplace.
(c) World of poetry.
(d) Parenthood.

11. Why does Bukowski hate the woman who has entered the shop in A Rain of Women?
(a) For her ugliness.
(b) For her stupidity.
(c) For her intelligence.
(d) For her meanness.

12. What is the name of the woman that Bukowski has relations with in Purple as an Iris?
(a) Mary.
(b) Madge.
(c) Vera.
(d) Bernie.

13. What do the two young men reply to Bukowski when he asks for a cigarette in The Big Pot Game?
(a) They will only sell it to him.
(b) They have run out.
(c) They are going to Malibu.
(d) They do not want to give him any.

14. In One for Walter Lowenfels, what does the woman believe in?
(a) Communism.
(b) She is apathetic.
(c) Moderate ideals.
(d) Conservative ideals.

15. What do the guests at the party like to talk about in Night Streets of Madness?
(a) Politics.
(b) Their children.
(c) Literature.
(d) Life experiences.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Night Streets of Madness, who does Bukowski think about having a conversation with?

2. Who does Bukowski go out with in Notes of a Potential Suicide?

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

4. Who is Bukowski's final visitor in A Popular Man?

5. Where had Bukowski planned on going after the mechanic?

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