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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 girl wearing in "Mating Saliva" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) A green mini skirt.
(b) An orange skirt.
(c) A red dress.
(d) A summer dress.

2. Brautigan writes "The Fever Monument" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster while poet-in-residence at what university?
(a) California Institute of Technology.
(b) U.C.L.A.
(c) University of California.
(d) N.Y.U.

3. Brautigan writes in "Discovery" of The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, "The petals of the vagina unfold like _________ taking off his shoes."
(a) Kafka.
(b) Marcus Arelius.
(c) Pablo Picasso.
(d) Christopher Columbus.

4. In Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 20, "Worsewick," Brautigan describes having sex with a woman in a stream full of what?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) Frogs.
(c) Dead fish.
(d) Tadpoles.

5. What is living up high in the mountains at Grider Creek, according to Brautigan in Chapter 8, "Grider Creek" in Trout Fishing in America?
(a) Eastern Brook Trout.
(b) Rainbow Trout.
(c) Banded Oregon Trout.
(d) Northern Brook Trout.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the kid have "Star Spangled" nails in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

2. Brautigan presents recipes for dining with whom in Chapter 6, "Another Way of Making Walnut Catsup" of Trout Fishing in America?

3. "Widow's Lament" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster says that it is not quite cold enough to ask the neighbors for what?

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

5. "A fart smells like a marriage between an avocado and a" what in "December 30" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

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