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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Watermelon Sugar.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The notorious criminal, in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 22, "The Mayor of the 20th Century," is compared to who?
(a) Bad Boy Nelson.
(b) Jesse James.
(c) Jack the Ripper.
(d) Ted Kawinski.

2. What does Margaret make for breakfast in Chapter 21, "Margaret Again, Again" of In Watermelon Sugar?
(a) Pancakes.
(b) Hotcakes.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Bacon.

3. The poem, "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, talks of deer walking past what?
(a) Caterpillars.
(b) Mice.
(c) Mountains.
(d) Computers.

4. What traps and eats insects in Chapter 9, "The Ballet for Trout Fishing in America" in Trout Fishing in America?
(a) The Snake Lily.
(b) The Casper Lily.
(c) The Golden Lily.
(d) The Cobra Lily.

5. By what mountains is Brautigan's cabin in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 27, "The Teddy Roosevelt Chingader"?
(a) Marble Mountains.
(b) Sawtooth Mountains.
(c) Sierra Mountains.
(d) Golden Mounains.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator writes in In Watermelon Sugar's Chapter 3, "My Name," "You walked someplace. There were ____ all around. That is my name."

2. What is the glass square surrounded by in "The Fever Monument" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

3. What beautiful things does the narrator write of living and dying in Chapter 5, "Charley's Idea" of In Watermelon Sugar?

4. What does the narrator write is "something else" in Chapter 12, "Margaret Again" of In Watermelon Sugar?

5. What has been placed along the creek to kill coyotes in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 25, "The Salt Creek Coyotes"?

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