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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does inBOIL get into a fight in Chapter 31, "Whiskey" of In Watermelon Sugar?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Fred.
(c) Charley.
(d) Margaret.

2. 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) Rivers.
(b) Gold.
(c) Emerald.
(d) Cotton candy.

3. Where do Brautigan and his friend mix four quarts of Kool-Aid and water in Chapter 5, "The KoolAid Wino" in Trout Fishing in America?
(a) The frontyard.
(b) The chicken coop.
(c) The backyard.
(d) The schoolyard.

4. Along what river is Brautigan traveling in Chapter 4, "Red Lip" in Trout Fishing in America?
(a) Kentucky River.
(b) Alpine River.
(c) Steelhead River.
(d) Klamath River.

5. How old is inBOIL in In Watermelon Sugar?
(a) 50.
(b) 40.
(c) 30.
(d) 60.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poem, "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, talks of deer walking past what?

2. "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?

3. What arithmetic did the tigers help the narrator with, according to Chapter 16, "Arithmetic" of In Watermelon Sugar?

4. What are the three poker players in "Poker Star" from The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

5. In Trout Fishing in America, Hayman Creek is named for Charles Hayman, an unpleasant old man who caught and ate ____ trout in his shack near the creek.

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