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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 emotions does Bukowski think a good poet should inspire, as described in Eyes Like the Sky?
(a) Fear and awe.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Satisfaction.

2. In The Big Pot Game, what does Bukowski think that older men have around them?
(a) Misery.
(b) Contentedness.
(c) Comfort.
(d) Happiness.

3. Where do Bukowski and the woman go one day in Purple as an Iris?
(a) The post office.
(b) The barn.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) His home.

4. What does the woman that Bukowski approaches in I Shot a Man in Reno pull out?
(a) A gun.
(b) Pepper spray.
(c) A whistle.
(d) A knife.

5. What are the young men in The Big Pot Game high on?
(a) LSD.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Cocaine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the guests at the party like to talk about in Night Streets of Madness?

2. What happens to Carol's animals one day?

3. What kind of friends does Bukowski have in Beer and Poets and Talk?

4. What kind of music does Bukowski think about in Notes of a Potential Suicide?

5. In One for Walter Lowenfels, what does the woman believe in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Bukowski's visitors take away from him in A Popular Man?

2. Why does Bukowski welcome death in A Popular Man?

3. How does Bukowski feel next to Jim in I Shot a Man in Reno?

4. What does Bukowski think of citizens today in A Bad Trip?

5. What is Bukowski's idea of justness in his society?

6. Why is the idea that every man can be a pest scary in Notes on the Pest?

7. In Flower Horse, what do the track and gambling represent?

8. What does Tina represent in One for Walter Lowenfels?

9. What happens at the end of the Flower Horse?

10. What does a pest do, according to Bukowski in Notes on the Pest?

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