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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 Bukowski wonder about himself in Notes on a Pest?
(a) Whether he is a good husband.
(b) Whether he is a pest.
(c) Whether he is intelligent.
(d) Whether he is loveable.

2. Who is Bukowski's final visitor in A Popular Man?
(a) A rabbi.
(b) An English teacher.
(c) A priest.
(d) A doctor.

3. What kind of friends does Bukowski have in Beer and Poets and Talk?
(a) Illiterate.
(b) Ignorant.
(c) Working-class.
(d) Literary.

4. Where do Bukowski and the woman go one day in Purple as an Iris?
(a) The post office.
(b) The grocery store.
(c) The barn.
(d) His home.

5. What kind of music does Bukowski think about in Notes of a Potential Suicide?
(a) Classical.
(b) Rock.
(c) Pop.
(d) Folk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Carol's animals one day?

2. What emotion does Bukowski feel within himself in A Rain of Women?

3. According to Bukowski, in Notes on the Pest, what does a pest do?

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

5. In The Big Pot Game, what do the young men have, according to Bukowski?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How do the boys disrespect the memories of the hepcats in The Big Pot Game?

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

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

9. Describe the woman in One for Walter Lowenfels.

10. Why does Bukowski not go to the race track as planned in A Rain of Women?

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