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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Beer and Poets and Talk, what does Bukowski think of the poets?
(a) Many of the greats have died.
(b) Great poets are gone forever.
(c) Many of the greats still live.
(d) The best of them are emerging.

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

3. How does the boy respond to the old man in Night Streets of Madness?
(a) He beats him.
(b) He politely converses with him.
(c) He leaves him.
(d) He ignores him.

4. Which animal does Gordon catch Carol with first?
(a) Orangutan.
(b) Cat.
(c) Tiger.
(d) A snake.

5. In The Blanket, how has Bukowski been sleeping?
(a) Deeply.
(b) He doesn't sleep at all.
(c) Comfortably.
(d) Uncomfortably.

6. When death comes, what does Bukowski do in A Popular Man?
(a) He cries.
(b) He smiles.
(c) He pleads for his life.
(d) He is sadly resigned.

7. What does Bukowski discuss with his friends in Beer and Poets and Talk?
(a) The nature of politics today.
(b) The nature of literature today.
(c) The nature of their friendship today.
(d) The nature of relationships today.

8. How does Bukowski discover what he does in A Bad Trip?
(a) After months of thinking.
(b) After a moment's reflection.
(c) On an acid trip.
(d) After a conversation.

9. What emotion does Bukowski observe on the racetrack coupled with joy in Flower Horse?
(a) Love.
(b) Hate.
(c) Despair.
(d) Anger.

10. In The Big Pot Game, what do the young men have, according to Bukowski?
(a) Misery.
(b) Dissatifactory circumstances.
(c) Everything.
(d) Freedom.

11. What did Bukowski witness at the event that he attended as a young boy?
(a) A parachute jumper being hit by a plane.
(b) A parachute jumper hitting the ground.
(c) A parachute jumper landing in a tree.
(d) A parachute jumper landing safely.

12. In Night Streets of Madness, who does Bukowski think about having a conversation with?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) His wife.
(c) His father.
(d) Henry Chinasky.

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

14. In One for Walter Lowenfels, who likes the woman's poems?
(a) Her boyfriend.
(b) Walter Lowenfels.
(c) Her professor.
(d) Her daughter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bukowski think of comic strips upon reading them?

2. What is the name of Bukowski's neighbor in The Blanket?

3. What happens at the end of Beers and Poets and Talk?

4. Where does the woman take her daughter in One for Walter Lowenfels?

5. Why does Bukowski take his car to the mechanic in A Rain of Women?

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