View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bukowski say about acid and the item in conjunction with it?
(a) They don't go well together.
(b) One trumps the other.
(c) They grow in popularity simultaneously.
(d) One is replacing the other.

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

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

4. In The Big Pot Game, what do the young men have, according to Bukowski?
(a) Everything.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Dissatifactory circumstances.
(d) Misery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Beer and Poets and Talk, what does Bukowski think of the poets?

2. Where do Bukowski and the woman go one day in Purple as an Iris?

3. In A Bad Trip, what does Bukowski talk about in conjunction with acid?

4. What place does Bukowski describe in Purple as an Iris?

5. What happens when the men and women's wards mix in Purple as an Iris?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bukowski feel next to Jim in I Shot a Man in Reno?

2. What does Bukowski think of people's taste in music?

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

4. What does Bukowski think of current poets and comic strips in Eyes Like the Sky?

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

6. What do Bukowski's visitors take away from him in A Popular Man?

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

8. What does the first woman in A Rain of Women remind Bukowski of?

9. Why is the idea that every man can be a pest scary in Notes on the Pest?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 686 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample