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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the three poker players in "Poker Star" from The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Cowboys.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Sheepherders.

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

3. 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.
(a) Raw.
(b) Rotten.
(c) Fresh.
(d) Golden.

4. The narrator writes of a statue of whom in Chapter 7, "The Gentle Cricket" of In Watermelon Sugar?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His sister.
(c) His mother.
(d) His aunt.

5. The narrator compliments Pauline's what in Chapter 46, "Pauline Again" of In Watermelon Sugar?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Painting.
(d) Cooking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the woman wearing in the cover photograph of the book Trout Fishing in America?

2. With whom does inBOIL get into a fight in Chapter 31, "Whiskey" of In Watermelon Sugar?

3. Brautigan writes in "Discovery" of The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, "The petals of the vagina unfold like _________ taking off his shoes."

4. What is the lion standing in the edges of in "A Candlelion Poem" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

5. In Chapter 1, "The Cover for Trout Fishing in America," Miller writes that Benjamin Franklin died in what year?

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