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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 singer is Bukowski listening to in I Shot a Man in Reno?
(a) Sam Cooke.
(b) Johnny Cash.
(c) Ella Fitzgerald.
(d) Elvis.
2. What does Bukowski want to ask the person he imagines having a conversation with in In Night Street of Madness?
(a) Why he left him.
(b) To come home.
(c) What he meant in his letter.
(d) Why the person killed himself.
3. What other distortion of truth exists, according to Bukowski in Eyes Like the Sky?
(a) Parenthood.
(b) Marriage.
(c) World of poetry.
(d) Workplace.
4. What do the guests at the party like to talk about in Night Streets of Madness?
(a) Their children.
(b) Life experiences.
(c) Politics.
(d) Literature.
5. Whose birthday is it towards the end of One for Walter Lowenfels?
(a) Walter Lowenfels'.
(b) The woman's.
(c) The man's.
(d) Tina's.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Gordon approach a house for in Animal Crackers in My Soup?
2. In One for Walter Lowenfels, what does the woman believe in?
3. What emotion does Bukowski feel within himself in A Rain of Women?
4. What happens to Carol's animals one day?
5. What is the name of the song that Bukowski is listening to in I Shot a Man in Reno?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Bukowski think of people's taste in music?
2. What happens when Bukowski is discovered with Mary in Purple as an Iris?
3. What does the murder of Carol's zoo in Animal Crackers in My Soup represent?
4. What does Bukowski think of citizens today in A Bad Trip?
5. Who is causing all the noise with the car horn in Night Streets of Madness, and why?
6. How do the boys disrespect the memories of the hepcats in The Big Pot Game?
7. What do Bukowski's visitors take away from him in A Popular Man?
8. How does Bukowski's obsession with death and sex show up in Notes of a Potential Suicide?
9. What does Carol do for Gordon to help him in Animal Crackers in My Soup?
10. Why does Bukowski usually avoid talking about literature, and what reminds him of of this in Beer and Poets and Talk?
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