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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 32 and Section 33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many track police attempt to subdue the angry crowd on the track in section eight?
(a) 8.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

2. What is the name of the man sharing Bukowski's apartment with whom he has the unintended sexual encounter in section twenty-seven?
(a) William.
(b) Hank.
(c) Jim.
(d) Henry.

3. What is the name of Henry's girlfriend in section seventeen?
(a) Jenny.
(b) Gloria.
(c) June.
(d) Mary Ann.

4. At the end of section sixteen, Bukowski does what?
(a) Sleeps.
(b) Goes to work.
(c) Gets drunk.
(d) Writes.

5. In section thirteen, the narrator has a post card where a professor states that the narrator is the best poet since which of the following?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Ginsberg.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Eliot.

Short Answer Questions

1. In section sixteen, how old is Bukowski's friend?

2. In which of the following cities does section twenty-three take place?

3. In section five Bukowski says he finds there are other things besides the mind, including all BUT WHICH of the following?

4. When Bukowski's friend witnessed a murder, what does he say the killers gave him to keep him quiet?

5. At the end of section ten, Moss tells the woman he calls that he's been thinking about a dress she wore. What color was the dress?

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