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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 42, "The Cleveland Wrecking Yard," of Trout Fishing in America, Brautigan takes a San Francisco bus to the Cleveland Wrecking Yard, where a used trout stream is for sale at ___ per foot.
(a) $6.50.
(b) $7.50.
(c) $4.50.
(d) $10.50.

2. Where does Brautigan write he found the poem "San Francisco" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) A laundromat.
(b) A bar.
(c) A hunting lodge.
(d) A gas station.

3. Above what does Brautigan write "medieval flames like a burning castle" rise in "Your Departure Versus the Hindenburg" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) New York.
(b) New Hampshire.
(c) New England.
(d) New Jersey.

4. "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?
(a) Poison Oak.
(b) Poison Ivy.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Aneurism.

5. How are Ophelia's clothes spread in "The Rape of Ophelia" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Fish-like.
(b) Vine-like.
(c) Mermaid-like.
(d) Tendril-like.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Brautigan's fishing pal catch a trout and kill it with port in Trout Fishing in America?

3. In Trout Fishing in America, Brautigan writes that death by what is cruel and unusual?

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

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

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