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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 13, "Sea, Sea Rider," the bookstore owner spins a tale, telling the narrator he fell in love with a woman during the what?
(a) American Revolution.
(b) American Civil War.
(c) Spanish Civil War.
(d) French and Indian War.

2. To whom is "The Shenevertakesherwatchoff Poem" dedicated in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Marcia.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Marie.
(d) Pauline.

3. What type of apples are called for in "Compote of Apples" in Trout Fishing in America?
(a) Tweeties.
(b) Goldens.
(c) Grannies.
(d) Pippins.

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) 1959.
(d) 1967.

5. What is the title of the poem in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster which reads, "Ah, you're just a copy of all the candy bars I've ever eaten"?
(a) Candy Hurricane.
(b) Past Candy Bar.
(c) Candy Bar Repeat.
(d) Xerox Candy Bar.

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. In Chapter 7, "Prologue to Grider Creek" of Trout Fishing in America, a man buys a house whose basement is filled with what?

3. What time is cited in "Alas, Measured Perfectly" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

4. Pauline notices twenty or thirty statues of what scattered around in watermelon sugar in In Watermelon Sugar?

5. What does inBOIL carry in his hand in Chapter 40, "Master of the Forgotten Works" of In Watermelon Sugar?

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