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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. What does the angel in section two say his name is?
(a) Jimmy Crispin.
(b) Jack Crenshaw.
(c) Johnny Cross.
(d) Jim Crow.

2. What is the name of Big Jack's girlfriend in section three?
(a) Maggy.
(b) June.
(c) Tina.
(d) Shelly.

3. In section twenty-five, Bukowski says a man can go ____ years without sex but can die in a week without a bowel movement.
(a) 100.
(b) 45.
(c) 70.
(d) 20.

4. What famous author does Bukowski cite in section nine?
(a) Nietsche.
(b) Whitman.
(c) Camus.
(d) Sartre.

5. According to Bukowski's friend, during the murder he witnessed the killers used what to murder their victim?
(a) Gun.
(b) Rock.
(c) Knife.
(d) Clothesline.

Short Answer Questions

1. After vomiting several times, the narrator says he hears what on Sunset Blvd?

2. Which writer does Bukowski quote in section five as saying, "to have great poets we need great audiences?"

3. What is the name of Bukowski's friend at the beginning of section sixteen?

4. When Bukowski leaves the apartment after the card game fight, to which city does he take a bus?

5. As section nine begins, Bukowski says that the main problem with the Kennedy assassination is that we lose gains in all BUT WHICH of the following areas?

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