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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. 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) Honey.
(b) Pudding.
(c) Cake.
(d) Cookie.

2. Brautigan talks of a ballet to be performed where in Chapter 9, "The Ballet for Trout Fishing in America" of Trout Fishing in America?
(a) N.Y.U.
(b) Harvard.
(c) U.C.L.A.
(d) Yale.

3. For whom is "A Candlelion Poem" dedicated in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Marcia.
(b) Michael.
(c) Emmett.
(d) Sarah.

4. What traps and eats insects in Chapter 9, "The Ballet for Trout Fishing in America" in Trout Fishing in America?
(a) The Snake Lily.
(b) The Cobra Lily.
(c) The Golden Lily.
(d) The Casper Lily.

5. "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) Aneurism.
(d) Epilepsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose fishing log book does Brautigan find in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 34, "Trout Fishing on the Street of Eternity"?

2. What does Brautigan write he wants to shower him with maps in "Map Shower" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

3. What season begins Chapter 10, "A Waldon Pond for Winos" of Trout Fishing in America?

4. What does Brautigan say he saw crucified on a barbed-wire fence in "The Double-Bed Dream Gallows" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

5. Where is the cover photograph described as being taken in Trout Fishing in America?

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