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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 20, "Worsewick," Brautigan describes having sex with a woman in a stream full of what?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) Dead fish.
(c) Frogs.
(d) Tadpoles.

2. Brautigan writes in "Man" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster that the man stands five inches taller than what?
(a) A taxicab.
(b) A schoolbus.
(c) A suitcase.
(d) A dandelion.

3. What has been placed along the creek to kill coyotes in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 25, "The Salt Creek Coyotes"?
(a) Metal traps.
(b) Cyanide capsules.
(c) Poisoned meat.
(d) Steel wire.

4. Where do the old people sit in "A Postcard from Chinatown" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) The bathtub.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The sink.
(d) The shower.

5. Brautigan writes "The sweet juices of your mouth are like ____ bathed in honey" in "I've Never Had It Done So Gently Before" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Rainbows.
(b) Sunsets.
(c) Castles.
(d) Trout.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the women looking at in "Alas, Measured Perfectly" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

2. Where does Brautigan go fishing in Chapter 12, "Trout Fishing on the Bevel" of Trout Fishing in America?

3. In Chapter 13, in what year does Brautigan stop in a bookstore in "Sea, Sea Rider" of Trout Fishing in America?

4. Where, near the Klamath River in Trout Fishing in America, does Brautigan gets lost in a wilderness of brush and poison oak?

5. For whom is "A Candlelion Poem" dedicated in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

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