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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 Chapter 1, "In Watermelon Sugar" the narrator says he lives in a shack near iDEATH made of "pine, watermelon sugar and" what?
(a) Stones.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Grass.
(d) Mushrooms.

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

3. Brautigan writes of a street lined with trees with intestines like what in "Death is a Beautiful Car Parked Only" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Emerald.
(b) Cotton candy.
(c) Rivers.
(d) Gold.

4. What supper is prepared by Pauline in Chapter 9, "iDEATH" of In Watermelon Sugar?
(a) Carrots.
(b) Stew.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Pot Roast.

5. 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) French and Indian War.
(b) American Revolution.
(c) Spanish Civil War.
(d) American Civil War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator go with to the Watermelon Press in Chapter 23, "The Schoolteacher" of In Watermelon Sugar?

2. Who begins to say something important but then stops at dinner in Chapter 75, "Carrots" of In Watermelon Sugar?

3. Where, near the Klamath River in Trout Fishing in America, does Brautigan gets lost in a wilderness of brush and poison oak?

4. Where does Brautigan describe hiking in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 27, "The Teddy Roosevelt Chingader"?

5. What is one of the women holding in "Alas, Measured Perfectly" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

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