View a FREE sample

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 time is cited in "Alas, Measured Perfectly" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) 4:15 p.m.
(b) 5:20 p.m.
(c) 3:20 p.m.
(d) 3:43 p.m.

2. In Chapter 1, "The Cover for Trout Fishing in America," Miller writes that Benjamin Franklin died in what year?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1694.
(c) 1790.
(d) 1796.

3. Whose fishing log book does Brautigan find in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 34, "Trout Fishing on the Street of Eternity"?
(a) John Francis'.
(b) Alonso Hagen's.
(c) Mark Matthews.
(d) Michael Miller's.

4. Where do Brautigan and his friend mix four quarts of Kool-Aid and water in Chapter 5, "The KoolAid Wino" in Trout Fishing in America?
(a) The schoolyard.
(b) The frontyard.
(c) The chicken coop.
(d) The backyard.

5. In Trout Fishing in America, Brautigan writes that death by what is cruel and unusual?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Beating.
(c) Port wine.
(d) Whiskey.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Brautigan harbor himself towards in "Hey, Bacon!" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

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. Brautigan talks of a ballet to be performed where in Chapter 9, "The Ballet for Trout Fishing in America" of Trout Fishing in America?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 260 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample