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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 The Blanket, how has Bukowski been sleeping?
(a) He doesn't sleep at all.
(b) Uncomfortably.
(c) Comfortably.
(d) Deeply.
2. What happens to Carol's animals one day?
(a) They are shot to death.
(b) They run away.
(c) They die naturally.
(d) They die in a fire.
3. In One for Walter Lowenfels, who likes the woman's poems?
(a) Walter Lowenfels.
(b) Her professor.
(c) Her boyfriend.
(d) Her daughter.
4. What is the name of Bukowski's companion at the event in Notes of a Potential Suicide?
(a) Harry.
(b) Frank.
(c) Gerry.
(d) Jimmy.
5. What does Bukowski discuss with his friends in Beer and Poets and Talk?
(a) The nature of literature today.
(b) The nature of politics today.
(c) The nature of relationships today.
(d) The nature of their friendship today.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Bukowski's final visitor give him?
2. What place does Bukowski describe in Purple as an Iris?
3. Whose birthday is it towards the end of One for Walter Lowenfels?
4. How does the mechanic in A Rain of Women approach Bukowski?
5. Why does Gordon marry Carol?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does a pest do, according to Bukowski in Notes on the Pest?
2. What happens at the end of the Flower Horse?
3. Who is causing all the noise with the car horn in Night Streets of Madness, and why?
4. What does Bukowski think of current poets and comic strips in Eyes Like the Sky?
5. Describe the woman in One for Walter Lowenfels.
6. How do the older men contrast with the younger ones in The Big Pot Game?
7. Why does Bukowski usually avoid talking about literature, and what reminds him of of this in Beer and Poets and Talk?
8. Why does Bukowski think that current poets and comic strips create their art the way they do?
9. What is Bukowski's idea of justness in his society?
10. What does the murder of Carol's zoo in Animal Crackers in My Soup represent?
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