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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 keep betting on in Flower Horse?
(a) Horses who win.
(b) Horses who are in last place.
(c) Horses who are short of winning.
(d) Horses who become injured.

2. What emotions does Bukowski think a good poet should inspire, as described in Eyes Like the Sky?
(a) Fear and awe.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Satisfaction.

3. In Notes of a Potential Suicide, what does Bukowski fail at?
(a) A test.
(b) His speech.
(c) Picking up girls.
(d) His marriage.

4. According to Bukowski, in Notes on the Pest, what does a pest do?
(a) Postulates useless theories.
(b) Takes his money.
(c) Breaks his things.
(d) Bothers his wife.

5. What do the two young men reply to Bukowski when he asks for a cigarette in The Big Pot Game?
(a) They do not want to give him any.
(b) They will only sell it to him.
(c) They have run out.
(d) They are going to Malibu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose birthday is it towards the end of One for Walter Lowenfels?

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

3. What does Bukowski want to ask the person he imagines having a conversation with in In Night Street of Madness?

4. Where does Bukowski find the ticket that he thought he lost in Flower Horse?

5. When death comes, what does Bukowski do in A Popular Man?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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