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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Night Streets of Madness, where do Bukowski and the young poet sit?
(a) In the park.
(b) In the car.
(c) Inside the house.
(d) On a porch.

2. What does Bukowski think comic strips used to be?
(a) Human.
(b) Satire.
(c) Superficial.
(d) Angry.

3. What does Bukowski say about acid and the item in conjunction with it?
(a) One trumps the other.
(b) They grow in popularity simultaneously.
(c) One is replacing the other.
(d) They don't go well together.

4. Where does Bukowski go during the conversation in Beer and Poets and Talk?
(a) Outside to smoke.
(b) The bathroom.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The grocery store.

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

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

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

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

9. In One for Walter Lowenfels, where does the man's daughter need to go today?
(a) School.
(b) Dentist.
(c) Preschool.
(d) The doctor.

10. 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 are going to Malibu.
(c) They have run out.
(d) They will only sell it to him.

11. How does Bukowski die in A Popular Man?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Fever.
(c) Chokes to death.
(d) Shoots himself.

12. 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.

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

14. In Flower Horse, what does Bukowski observe on the racetrack coupled with frivolity?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Importance.
(c) Anger.
(d) Playfulness.

15. What does Bukowski want to ask the person he imagines having a conversation with in In Night Street of Madness?
(a) What he meant in his letter.
(b) Why he left him.
(c) To come home.
(d) Why the person killed himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the orangutan in Animal Crackers in My Soup?

2. In Animal Crackers In My Soup, where has Carol spent time before?

3. What is Bukowski's current delusion in The Blanket?

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

5. Whose birthday is it towards the end of One for Walter Lowenfels?

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