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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 do the Chinese smoke in "A Postcard from Chinatown" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Opium.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Morphine.
(d) Tobacco.

2. Where, near the Klamath River in Trout Fishing in America, does Brautigan gets lost in a wilderness of brush and poison oak?
(a) Tom Martin Creek.
(b) Sal Winter Creek.
(c) Borristown Creek.
(d) Anderson Creek.

3. What is the first item in "Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4" of The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it.
(b) Find God.
(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 one of the women holding in "Alas, Measured Perfectly" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) A turtle.
(b) A dog.
(c) A pigeon.
(d) A cat.

5. Brautigan presents recipes for dining with whom in Chapter 6, "Another Way of Making Walnut Catsup" of Trout Fishing in America?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Maria Callais.
(c) Alexander Wilde.
(d) Marcus Arelius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time is cited in "Alas, Measured Perfectly" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

2. How old does Brautigan write while he was playing checkers in "The Chinese Checker Players" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

3. Who is the field boss under whom Brautigan works as a cherry-picker in Trout Fishing in America?

4. Brautigan says he learned about trout fishing in America from his stepfather in what year?

5. In Trout Fishing in America, Hayman Creek is named for Charles Hayman, an unpleasant old man who caught and ate ____ trout in his shack near the creek.

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