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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What place does Bukowski describe in Purple as an Iris?
(a) A college campus.
(b) An insane asylum.
(c) A hospital.
(d) His hometown.

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

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

5. What does Bukowski think comic strips have become?
(a) Heightened social commentary.
(b) Human.
(c) Subtle.
(d) Raw.

6. What singer is Bukowski listening to in I Shot a Man in Reno?
(a) Johnny Cash.
(b) Elvis.
(c) Sam Cooke.
(d) Ella Fitzgerald.

7. What kind of friends does Bukowski have in Beer and Poets and Talk?
(a) Literary.
(b) Illiterate.
(c) Ignorant.
(d) Working-class.

8. What friend does Bukowski visit in I shot a man in Reno?
(a) Luke.
(b) Jim.
(c) Derek.
(d) Johnny.

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. How does Bukowski feel about the situation in poetry in Eyes Like the Sky?
(a) It will get worse.
(b) It is already better.
(c) It can change.
(d) It will never change.

14. What does Bukowski's final visitor give him?
(a) A book of poetry.
(b) A novel.
(c) A coffin.
(d) A check.

15. How much money does Bukowski win in Flower Horse?
(a) $100.
(b) $2,500.
(c) $200.
(d) $250.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bukowski die in A Popular Man?

2. What does Bukowski do with his phone in Notes on a Pest?

3. In A Popular Man, who does a man tell Bukowski that his wife has been having an affair with?

4. What does Bukowski discover in A Bad Trip?

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

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