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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, Brautigan writes that death by what is cruel and unusual?
(a) Port wine.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Beating.
(d) Fishing.

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

3. Where does the kid have "Star Spangled" nails in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) His suitcase.
(b) His bed.
(c) His car.
(d) His coffin.

4. In Chapter 13, in what year does Brautigan stop in a bookstore in "Sea, Sea Rider" of Trout Fishing in America?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1959.

5. What season begins Chapter 10, "A Waldon Pond for Winos" of Trout Fishing in America?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Spring.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. "Widow's Lament" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster says that it is not quite cold enough to ask the neighbors for what?

3. The notorious criminal, in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 22, "The Mayor of the 20th Century," is compared to who?

4. Where does Brautigan write he found the poem "San Francisco" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

5. What does Brautigan say he saw crucified on a barbed-wire fence in "The Double-Bed Dream Gallows" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

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