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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Animal Crackers In My Soup, where has Carol spent time before?
(a) A madhouse.
(b) Prison.
(c) Abroad.
(d) The hospital.

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

3. Where does the woman take her daughter in One for Walter Lowenfels?
(a) Grocery store.
(b) School.
(c) A library.
(d) A bookstore.

4. In Purple as an Iris, who discovers Bukowski and the woman?
(a) His friends.
(b) Orderlies.
(c) Other patients.
(d) His wife.

5. Who does Bukowski go out with in Notes of a Potential Suicide?
(a) A French man.
(b) A German man.
(c) An Englishman.
(d) A Spanish man.

6. What does Bukowski hear through the wall in Beer and Poets and Talk?
(a) A couple fighting.
(b) Children laughing.
(c) A couple laughing.
(d) Children fighting.

7. In I shot a man in Reno, how long is Bukowski hired for his job?
(a) Five months.
(b) One year.
(c) One month.
(d) Three months.

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

9. What does LSD do to a user's reality, according to Bukowski?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Ends it.
(c) Alters it.
(d) Enhances it.

10. In Purple as an Iris, what does Bukowski sell?
(a) Books.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Drugs.

11. What happens at the end of Beers and Poets and Talk?
(a) Bukowski goes to sleep.
(b) Bukowski leaves his friends for the day.
(c) Bukowski starts a fight with his friends.
(d) Bukowski returns to his friends.

12. What does Bukowski think the young men in The Big Pot Game do with the language they copy?
(a) They rise above the original.
(b) He has no opinion.
(c) They copy them well.
(d) They cheapen the words.

13. What kind of music does Bukowski think about in Notes of a Potential Suicide?
(a) Pop.
(b) Rock.
(c) Folk.
(d) Classical.

14. What does Bukowski wonder about himself in Notes on a Pest?
(a) Whether he is loveable.
(b) Whether he is a pest.
(c) Whether he is intelligent.
(d) Whether he is a good husband.

15. What does Bukowski do with his phone in Notes on a Pest?
(a) Puts it in a box of rags.
(b) Throws it out the window.
(c) Breaks it.
(d) Disconnects it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the neighbor in The Blanket do to the blanket?

2. Which animal does Gordon catch Carol with first?

3. Who does Bukowski hate in Flower Horse?

4. What does Bukowski want to ask the person he imagines having a conversation with in In Night Street of Madness?

5. What other distortion of truth exists, according to Bukowski in Eyes Like the Sky?

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