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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What saves Blaine from being raped?
2. What does Mr. Sneed believe there is no shame in?
3. Where does Dan go for his new job?
4. What does Lala do while in the store with her father?
5. What does the Too Sensitive narrator's girlfriend tell him about Benny Adimson?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Bukowksi obey social conventions when attending the wedding in The Great Zen Wedding?
2. Describe the character of Henry Chinasky in Would You Suggest Writing as a Career?.
3. Why does Signo fire Skorski in The Stupid Christs?
4. What does the narrator say he will require of his creative writing students in Goodbye Watson?
5. In Great Poets Die in Steaming Pots of Shit, how does Bukowski feel about his fans, and why?
6. How does Mr. Sneed view death in A Dollar and 20 Cents?
7. What does the narrator of Goodbye Watson think about literature?
8. In My Stay in the Poet's Cottage, how does Bukowski reply to the editor who is shocked at his walking in the stifling heat rather than wait for the bus?
9. In Cunt and Kant and a Happy Home, describe the highs and lows of Jack Hendley's horse races.
10. What does Bukowski say to Vera when she asks him if she is too fat in No Stockings?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
"Would You Suggest Writing as a Career?" and "The Great Zen Wedding" both contain characters who have an unusual view towards women. Describe the main characters' views of women from both stories. How do you explain the violent attitude toward women in both stories? What does each character hope to achieve by gaining control over women? What do you make of the women's responses to his overtures? Make sure you answer each question with evidence and support from the stories.
Essay Topic 2
"Reunion" and "Cunt and Kant and a Happy Home" both contain characters with an addiction--one has an addiction to alcohol, while the other has a gambling addiction. How do each characters' addiction affect their life? Does it affect anyone around them, and if so, how? Describe the cycle of addiction as seen in the stories. Make sure you answer each question with evidence and support from the stories.
Essay Topic 3
Many stories in "Tales of Ordinary Madness" involve a serious addiction to gambling. Using at least two stories as examples, describe how gambling play a role in the main characters' lives. Describe the cycle of addiction. How does gambling affect the characters' lives? Make sure you answer each question with evidence and support from the stories.
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