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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which poem from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster ends with the line, "Without you, I am dead"?
(a) "Sonnett."
(b) "Artichoke Mother."
(c) "Adrenalin Mother."
(d) "Alibone Dinner."

2. In 1956, who spoke under the tall cypress tree described in Chapter 1, "The Cover for Trout Fishing in America"?
(a) Sarah Berhardt.
(b) Anderson Lee.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Adlai Stevenson.

3. What does Ophelia float like in "The Rape of Ophelia" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) An August moon.
(b) An autumn breeze.
(c) A summer sunset.
(d) An April church.

4. The narrator writes of the tigers killing whom in Chapter 16, "Arithmetic" of In Watermelon Sugar?
(a) His brother.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His parents.
(d) His sister.

5. "Widow's Lament" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster says that it is not quite cold enough to ask the neighbors for what?
(a) Food.
(b) Firewood.
(c) Money.
(d) Help.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator plant in Chapter 28, "Nine Things" of In Watermelon Sugar?

2. Where does Brautigan describe hiking in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 27, "The Teddy Roosevelt Chingader"?

3. What was the poem "San Francisco" written on in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

4. What does Old Chuck tell Pauline he dreamed about in In Watermelon Sugar?

5. The poem, "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, talks of deer walking past what?

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