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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 is the girl wearing in "Mating Saliva" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) An orange skirt.
(b) A green mini skirt.
(c) A red dress.
(d) A summer dress.

2. Where does Brautigan's fishing pal catch a trout and kill it with port in Trout Fishing in America?
(a) Casper Creek.
(b) Tom Anderson Creek.
(c) Owl Snuff Creek.
(d) Millville Creek.

3. What is the narrator surrounded by at the fish hatchery in Chapter 80, "Margaret Again, Again, Again, Again, Again" of In Watermelon Sugar?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Lanterns.
(c) Graves.
(d) Rainbows.

4. Who calls inBOIL a "disgusting man" in Chapter 53, "An Exchange" of In Watermelon Sugar?
(a) Pauline.
(b) Fred.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Margaret.

5. In Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 20, "Worsewick," Brautigan describes having sex with a woman in a stream full of what?
(a) Dead fish.
(b) Butterflies.
(c) Frogs.
(d) Tadpoles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ophelia encounters an evil what in "The Rape of Ophelia" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

2. What does the narrator say "are very nice things, especially after they have traveled back from making love" in In Watermelon Sugar?

3. Who does the narrator go with to the Watermelon Press in Chapter 23, "The Schoolteacher" of In Watermelon Sugar?

4. What has been placed along the creek to kill coyotes in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 25, "The Salt Creek Coyotes"?

5. Brautigan writes of a street lined with trees with intestines like what in "Death is a Beautiful Car Parked Only" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

(see the answer key)

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