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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the man in Great Poets Die in Steaming Pots of Shit think of Bukowski's employment status?
(a) He cannot understand.
(b) He gives no opinion.
(c) He praises his work at the post office.
(d) He sees it as normal.

2. In Reunion, from where does Harry return home?
(a) Work.
(b) Prison.
(c) College.
(d) Rehabilitation.

3. Where does Dan go for his new job?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York.
(c) Tucson.
(d) Dallas.

4. In A Quiet Conversation Piece, who does Bukowski sit with?
(a) Dan.
(b) Barney.
(c) Maxie.
(d) Madge.

5. In A Quiet Conversation Piece, what does his friend believe the United States needs?
(a) A revolution.
(b) Love.
(c) Peace.
(d) Dialogue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the girlfriend scoff at the narrator's offer in Too Sensitive?

2. Why is Bukowski incarcerated in Doing Time with Public Enemy No. 1?

3. Who tears an item of Mad Jimmy's?

4. What does the desk clerk give Frank?

5. Why does Duke's wife scold him in A .45 to Pay the Rent?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the foreman in Love it or Leave it cruel?

2. What does the narrator of Goodbye Watson think about literature?

3. In Great Poets Die in Steaming Pots of Shit, how does Bukowski feel about his fans, and why?

4. In My Stay in the Poet's Cottage, how does Bukowski reply to the editor who is shocked at his walking in the stifling heat rather than wait for the bus?

5. How does Bukowksi obey social conventions when attending the wedding in The Great Zen Wedding?

6. In Cunt and Kant and a Happy Home, describe the highs and lows of Jack Hendley's horse races.

7. Describe the moral code of prison in Scenes from the Big Time.

8. How does the girlfriend insult her boyfriend in Too Sensitive?

9. What does Bukowski think of revolution in contrast to Maxie in A Quiet Conversation Piece?

10. What does the young boy represent in Love it or Leave it?

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