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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. How much money does Bukowski win in Flower Horse?
(a) $250.
(b) $200.
(c) $2,500.
(d) $100.
2. What does Bukowski think comic strips have become?
(a) Human.
(b) Raw.
(c) Subtle.
(d) Heightened social commentary.
3. In Night Streets of Madness, who does Bukowski think about having a conversation with?
(a) His father.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) His wife.
(d) Henry Chinasky.
4. In One for Walter Lowenfels, who likes the woman's poems?
(a) Her professor.
(b) Her boyfriend.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Walter Lowenfels.
5. What does Bukowski discover in A Bad Trip?
(a) The truth about everything.
(b) The meaning of love.
(c) His purpose.
(d) The charade of the world.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the neighbor in The Blanket do to the blanket?
2. What happens when the men and women's wards mix in Purple as an Iris?
3. What happens at the end of Beers and Poets and Talk?
4. Of what kind of group have the boys in The Big Pot Game copied their language from?
5. In The Blanket, how has Bukowski been sleeping?
Short Essay Questions
1. What else does Bukowski realize about himself when he sees Luke in I Shot a Man in Reno?
2. What happens at the end of the Flower Horse?
3. Why is the idea that every man can be a pest scary in Notes on the Pest?
4. In Flower Horse, what do the track and gambling represent?
5. What is different about Beer and Poets and Talk than the other short stories in Tales of Ordinary Madness?
6. Why does Bukowski usually avoid talking about literature, and what reminds him of of this in Beer and Poets and Talk?
7. Who is causing all the noise with the car horn in Night Streets of Madness, and why?
8. What does a pest do, according to Bukowski in Notes on the Pest?
9. What do Bukowski's visitors take away from him in A Popular Man?
10. What is Bukowski's idea of justness in his society?
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