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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 is acid's virtue, according to Bukowski?
(a) Its ability to show truth that is not evident to others.
(b) Its ability to distort truth.
(c) Its ability to put someone to sleep.
(d) It has no virtues.

2. What is the name of the orangutan in Animal Crackers in My Soup?
(a) Nathan.
(b) Gordon.
(c) Carol.
(d) Bilbo.

3. What is the name of Bukowski's companion at the event in Notes of a Potential Suicide?
(a) Harry.
(b) Frank.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) Gerry.

4. In A Popular Man, who does a man tell Bukowski that his wife has been having an affair with?
(a) Bukowski.
(b) The mayor.
(c) A rabbi.
(d) The President.

5. In Night Streets of Madness, where do Bukowski and the young poet sit?
(a) On a porch.
(b) In the park.
(c) Inside the house.
(d) In the car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the woman take her daughter in One for Walter Lowenfels?

2. What happens at the end of Beers and Poets and Talk?

3. What does Bukowski keep betting on in Flower Horse?

4. What does LSD do to a user's reality, according to Bukowski?

5. In Purple as an Iris, who discovers Bukowski and the woman?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Bukowski is discovered with Mary in Purple as an Iris?

2. Why does Bukowski think that current poets and comic strips create their art the way they do?

3. What does Bukowski hallucinate, and what is it associated with in The Blanket?

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

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

6. What is different about Beer and Poets and Talk than the other short stories in Tales of Ordinary Madness?

7. How does Bukowski's obsession with death and sex show up in Notes of a Potential Suicide?

8. Why does Bukowski usually avoid talking about literature, and what reminds him of of this in Beer and Poets and Talk?

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

10. What does the murder of Carol's zoo in Animal Crackers in My Soup represent?

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