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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the poem in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster which reads, "Ah, you're just a copy of all the candy bars I've ever eaten"?
(a) Past Candy Bar.
(b) Candy Hurricane.
(c) Candy Bar Repeat.
(d) Xerox Candy Bar.

2. The third recipe listed, by Brautigan in Chapter 6, "Another Way of Making Walnut Catsup" of Trout Fishing in America, is for "A Spoonful _____."
(a) Pudding.
(b) Cake.
(c) Honey.
(d) Cookie.

3. Chapter 46 "The Mayonnaise Chapter" in Trout Fishing in America discusses the death of whom?
(a) Mr. Good.
(b) Mr. Smith.
(c) Mr. Nice.
(d) Mr. Johnson.

4. How many children does the woman have in the basement in "Education" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Six hundred.
(b) Five hundred.
(c) One hundred.
(d) One thousand.

5. In Chapter 3, "Knock on Wood, Part II," of Trout Fishing in America, Brautigan recounts his first trout fishing experience where?
(a) Portland, ME.
(b) San Francisco, CA.
(c) Seattle, WA.
(d) Portland, OR.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the glass square surrounded by in "The Fever Monument" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

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. 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.

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

5. What season is it in "The Double-Bed Dream Gallows" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

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