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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Big Pot Game.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bukowski feel about the situation in poetry in Eyes Like the Sky?
(a) It is already better.
(b) It will get worse.
(c) It can change.
(d) It will never change.

2. What emotion does Bukowski feel within himself in A Rain of Women?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Shame.

3. In One for Walter Lowenfels, who likes the woman's poems?
(a) Her boyfriend.
(b) Her professor.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Walter Lowenfels.

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

5. Where is Chinasky's flight headed?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) Burbank.
(c) Seattle.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bukowski discuss with his friends in Beer and Poets and Talk?

2. In A Quiet Conversation Piece, what does his friend believe the United States needs?

3. In Night Streets of Madness, where do Bukowski and the young poet sit?

4. How much money does Bukowski win in Flower Horse?

5. Who is Bukowski's final visitor in A Popular Man?

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