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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. In Doing Time with Public Enemy No. 1, what does Bukowski's non-English speaking cell mate do?
(a) Steals Bukowski's sheets.
(b) Gets out of prison before Bukowski.
(c) Learns English from Bukowski.
(d) Attacks Bukowski.

2. In Love it or Leave It, what does Bukowski find to sleep in?
(a) A Mustang.
(b) A Cadillac.
(c) An empty house.
(d) An empty train car.

3. How does Bukowski brush off the man in Great Poets Die in Steaming Pots of Shit?
(a) By promising to visit him.
(b) By threatening him.
(c) By calling security.
(d) By yelling at him.

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

5. What does the Too Sensitive narrator's girlfriend tell him about Benny Adimson?
(a) He quit.
(b) He has been promoted.
(c) He has been hired.
(d) He has been laid off.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Great Poets Die in Steaming Pots of Shit, what does the man that approaches Bukowski do?

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

3. Who does Bukowski drink heavily with prior to the Great Zen Wedding ceremony?

4. Where does Jack Hendley arrive in Cunt and Kant and a Happy Home?

5. What state is Bukowski in during the summer in My Stay at the Poet's Cottage?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Bukowski and Maxie leave the conversation with in A Quiet Conversation Piece?

2. What does Bukowski say to Vera when she asks him if she is too fat in No Stockings?

3. Describe the character of Henry Chinasky in Would You Suggest Writing as a Career?.

4. Describe the town in An Evil Town.

5. What is Bukowski's primal desire in Rape! Rape!, and how does he reveal it?

6. Describe Duke's relationship with Lala in A .45 to Pay the Rent.

7. Describe the character of Signo in The Stupid Christs.

8. What does the narrator say he will require of his creative writing students in Goodbye Watson?

9. 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?

10. Describe Charles Bukowski's character in Doing Time with Public Enemy No. 1.

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