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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) Charley.
(b) Margaret.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Fred.

2. Where, near the Klamath River in Trout Fishing in America, does Brautigan gets lost in a wilderness of brush and poison oak?
(a) Tom Martin Creek.
(b) Anderson Creek.
(c) Sal Winter Creek.
(d) Borristown Creek.

3. In 1956, who spoke under the tall cypress tree described in Chapter 1, "The Cover for Trout Fishing in America"?
(a) Sarah Berhardt.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Anderson Lee.
(d) Adlai Stevenson.

4. Where does the narrator write of spending the night in In Watermelon Sugar's Chapter 10, "A Lot of Good Nights"?
(a) The Lost Works.
(b) The Power Works.
(c) The Forgotten Works.
(d) iDEATH.

5. Who has died in Chapter 67, "The Grand Old Trout Again" of In Watermelon Sugar?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Pauline.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Sarah.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the narrator surrounded by at the fish hatchery in Chapter 80, "Margaret Again, Again, Again, Again, Again" of In Watermelon Sugar?

3. Chapter 6, "Another Way of Making Walnut Catsup" in Trout Fishing in America, has how many recipes?

4. Which poem from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster ends with the line, "Without you, I am dead"?

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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