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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's Chapter 17, "The Message," Brautigan comes upon a herd of sheep driven by a man who resembles whom?
(a) Adolph Hitler.
(b) Truman.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Eisenhower.

2. What does one of the players have in "Poker Star" from The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) A straight.
(b) A full house.
(c) Two pair.
(d) Three of a kind.

3. Brautigan writes in Chapter 8, "Grider Creek" of Trout Fishing in America that the large creeks were running muddy from the snow melting off what mountains?
(a) Boonville Mountains.
(b) Golden Mountains.
(c) Marble Mountains.
(d) Silver Mountains.

4. Where is the cover photograph described as being taken in Trout Fishing in America?
(a) The Pacific Ocean.
(b) Times Square.
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Washington Square.

5. What color hair is referred to throughout "Horse Child Breakfast" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Blond.
(b) Brunette.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. "I Lie Here in a Strange Girl's Apartment" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster says that the woman is afflicted with what?

2. What river does Brautigan write of in "Education" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

3. In Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 20, "Worsewick," Brautigan describes having sex with a woman in a stream full of what?

4. Brautigan writes in "Discovery" of The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, "The petals of the vagina unfold like _________ taking off his shoes."

5. In Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 37, "The Last Time I Saw Trout Fishing in America," Brautigan encounters Trout Fishing in America while fishing where in Idaho?

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