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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 One for Walter Lowenfels, where does the man's daughter need to go today?
(a) Dentist.
(b) School.
(c) The doctor.
(d) Preschool.

2. What is the name of the song that Bukowski is listening to in I Shot a Man in Reno?
(a) Summertime.
(b) A change gonna come.
(c) Folsom Prison.
(d) I shot a man in Reno.

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

4. What did Bukowski witness at the event that he attended as a young boy?
(a) A parachute jumper landing safely.
(b) A parachute jumper hitting the ground.
(c) A parachute jumper being hit by a plane.
(d) A parachute jumper landing in a tree.

5. What emotion does Bukowski feel within himself in A Rain of Women?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Satisfaction.
(d) Shame.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Animal Crackers In My Soup, where has Carol spent time before?

2. What is the name of Bukowski's companion at the event in Notes of a Potential Suicide?

3. How does Bukowski discover what he does in A Bad Trip?

4. In The Big Pot Game, what does Bukowski think that older men have around them?

5. What does Bukowski say about acid and the item in conjunction with it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What else does Bukowski realize about himself when he sees Luke in I Shot a Man in Reno?

2. Describe the woman in One for Walter Lowenfels.

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

4. Why does Bukowski cry after burning the blanket in The Blanket?

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

6. What is ironic about Bukowski's observations in A Bad Trip?

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

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

9. How do the older men contrast with the younger ones in The Big Pot Game?

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

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