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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 does the neighbor in The Blanket do to the blanket?
(a) Folds it.
(b) Shoots it.
(c) Tears it apart.
(d) Burns it.

2. In Purple as an Iris, who discovers Bukowski and the woman?
(a) Orderlies.
(b) His wife.
(c) His friends.
(d) Other patients.

3. What does LSD do to a user's reality, according to Bukowski?
(a) Alters it.
(b) Enhances it.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Ends it.

4. In Notes on the Pest, what does a pest talk to Bukowski about at the diner?
(a) His doughnut.
(b) His work.
(c) His personal life.
(d) His coffee.

5. What does Bukowski say in Notes on a Pest that every man has inside him?
(a) Warmth.
(b) Evil.
(c) A pest.
(d) Goodness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Bukowski feel about the situation in poetry in Eyes Like the Sky?

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

4. How does the boy respond to the old man in Night Streets of Madness?

5. Why does Bukowski take his car to the mechanic in A Rain of Women?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the woman in One for Walter Lowenfels.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Tina represent in One for Walter Lowenfels?

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

10. Who is causing all the noise with the car horn in Night Streets of Madness, and why?

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