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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Watermelon Sugar.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Brautigan write he found the poem "San Francisco" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) A bar.
(b) A laundromat.
(c) A gas station.
(d) A hunting lodge.

2. Some of the rivers in In Watermelon Sugar are only how wide?
(a) A half an inch.
(b) Three feet.
(c) An inch.
(d) A foot.

3. What does Brautigan harbor himself towards in "Hey, Bacon!" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Two eggs over easy.
(b) Pancakes.
(c) Two eggs scrambled.
(d) An omelet.

4. What is the glass square surrounded by in "The Fever Monument" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Blue flowers.
(b) Red flowers.
(c) Trees.
(d) Statues.

5. Pauline is startled by what in Chapter 14, "A Love A Wind" in In Watermelon Sugar?
(a) The rainbow sings.
(b) The trees stir.
(c) The wind blows.
(d) The wind stops blowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator write of having dinner with in Chapter 6, "Sundown" of In Watermelon Sugar?

2. The notorious criminal, in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 22, "The Mayor of the 20th Century," is compared to who?

3. Who cooks dinner with Pauline in Chapter 87, "Cooks Together" of In Watermelon Sugar?

4. Who begins to say something important but then stops at dinner in Chapter 75, "Carrots" of In Watermelon Sugar?

5. How old is inBOIL in In Watermelon Sugar?

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