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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Trout Fishing in America.

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) Jesse James.
(b) Ted Kawinski.
(c) Bad Boy Nelson.
(d) Jack the Ripper.

2. In Chapter 1, "The Cover for Trout Fishing in America," Miller writes that Benjamin Franklin died in what year?
(a) 1796.
(b) 1694.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1790.

3. Brautigan talks of a ballet to be performed where in Chapter 9, "The Ballet for Trout Fishing in America" of Trout Fishing in America?
(a) U.C.L.A.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) N.Y.U.

4. In Chapter 7, "Prologue to Grider Creek" of Trout Fishing in America, a man buys a house whose basement is filled with what?
(a) Rats.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Cats.
(d) Fleas.

5. 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 Golden Lily.
(c) The Casper Lily.
(d) The Cobra Lily.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far downriver must Brautigan travel to get home in Chapter 4, "Red Lip" in Trout Fishing in America?

2. What is written above the door of the church described in Chapter 1, "The Cover for Trout Fishing in America"?

3. By what mountains is Brautigan's cabin in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 27, "The Teddy Roosevelt Chingader"?

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

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

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