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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. What is one of the women looking at in "Alas, Measured Perfectly" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Horses.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Fish.

2. Where does Brautigan go fishing in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 23, "On Paradise"?
(a) Paradise Creek.
(b) Paradise Pond.
(c) Paradise River.
(d) Paradise Lake.

3. "Death is a Beautiful Car Parked Only" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster is dedicated to whom?
(a) Pauline.
(b) Marcia.
(c) Emmett.
(d) Marie.

4. What does Brautigan associate trout with in Trout Fishing in America?
(a) Steel.
(b) Love.
(c) Fear.
(d) Women.

5. In Chapter 42, "The Cleveland Wrecking Yard," of Trout Fishing in America, Brautigan takes a San Francisco bus to the Cleveland Wrecking Yard, where a used trout stream is for sale at ___ per foot.
(a) $6.50.
(b) $7.50.
(c) $4.50.
(d) $10.50.

Short Answer Questions

1. Brautigan writes Lord Byran died in Greece in what year, in Trout Fishing in America?

2. Ophelia encounters an evil what in "The Rape of Ophelia" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

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

4. "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?

5. What type of dawn does Brautigan write of in "Your Necklace is Leaking" of The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

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