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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 does Brautigan refer to as "the John Dillinger capital of America" in Trout Fishing in America?
(a) Mooresville, Indiana.
(b) Casper, Wyoming.
(c) Memphis, Tennessee.
(d) Denver, Colorado.

2. What year is cited in "Alas, Measured Perfectly" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1903.

3. What is the first item in "Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4" of The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Find God.
(b) Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it.
(c) Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there.
(d) Get enough food to eat, and eat it.

4. 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) Candy Bar Repeat.
(b) Past Candy Bar.
(c) Xerox Candy Bar.
(d) Candy Hurricane.

5. By what mountains is Brautigan's cabin in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 27, "The Teddy Roosevelt Chingader"?
(a) Sawtooth Mountains.
(b) Sierra Mountains.
(c) Marble Mountains.
(d) Golden Mounains.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 17, "The Message," Brautigan comes upon a herd of sheep driven by a man who resembles whom?

2. Brautigan writes in Chapter 8, "Grider Creek" of Trout Fishing in America that the large creeks were running muddy from the snow melting off what mountains?

3. Where does Brautigan go fishing in Chapter 12, "Trout Fishing on the Bevel" of Trout Fishing in America?

4. Brautigan writes Lord Byran died in Greece in what year, in Trout Fishing in America?

5. What does Great Sparrow pull between the children in "Education" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

(see the answer key)

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