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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Brautigan writes to "burn all the ___ to your body" in "The Double-Bed Dream Gallows" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster.
(a) Hair.
(b) Kisses.
(c) Love.
(d) Maps.

2. Where does Brautigan's fishing pal catch a trout and kill it with port in Trout Fishing in America?
(a) Millville Creek.
(b) Owl Snuff Creek.
(c) Tom Anderson Creek.
(d) Casper Creek.

3. Where does Brautigan write of going to bed in "The Beautiful Poem" of The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Sacramento.
(b) Eureka.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Portland.

4. Chapter 6, "Another Way of Making Walnut Catsup" in Trout Fishing in America, has how many recipes?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 7.

5. The narrator compliments Pauline's what in Chapter 46, "Pauline Again" of In Watermelon Sugar?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Painting.

Short Answer Questions

1. The trout hatchery in In Watermelon Sugar is built on the exact same spot that what was buried?

2. What is the woman wearing in the cover photograph of the book Trout Fishing in America?

3. To whom is "Map Shower" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster dedicated?

4. What arithmetic did the tigers help the narrator with, according to Chapter 16, "Arithmetic" of In Watermelon Sugar?

5. In Chapter 1, "In Watermelon Sugar" the narrator says he lives in a shack near iDEATH made of "pine, watermelon sugar and" what?

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