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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. How does the mechanic in A Rain of Women approach Bukowski?
(a) Enthusiastically.
(b) With the average amount of work.
(c) In a hostile manner.
(d) Uncooperatively and lazily.

2. What happens at the end of Beers and Poets and Talk?
(a) Bukowski goes to sleep.
(b) Bukowski leaves his friends for the day.
(c) Bukowski returns to his friends.
(d) Bukowski starts a fight with his friends.

3. Who does Bukowski go out with in Notes of a Potential Suicide?
(a) A French man.
(b) A German man.
(c) A Spanish man.
(d) An Englishman.

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

5. What does Bukowski think comic strips have become?
(a) Subtle.
(b) Human.
(c) Raw.
(d) Heightened social commentary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what kind of group have the boys in The Big Pot Game copied their language from?

2. What does Bukowski say to the young poet about the incident between the boy and the old man in In Night Streets of Madness?

3. What is the name of the orangutan in Animal Crackers in My Soup?

4. What does Bukowski discuss with his friends in Beer and Poets and Talk?

5. What other distortion of truth exists, according to Bukowski in Eyes Like the Sky?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Carol do for Gordon to help him in Animal Crackers in My Soup?

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

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

6. What does Bukowski think of sex in Purple as an Iris?

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

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

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

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

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