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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 7, "Prologue to Grider Creek" of Trout Fishing in America, a man buys a house whose basement is filled with what?
(a) Fleas.
(b) Cats.
(c) Rats.
(d) Dogs.

2. 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.

3. The notorious criminal, in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 22, "The Mayor of the 20th Century," is compared to who?
(a) Ted Kawinski.
(b) Jesse James.
(c) Jack the Ripper.
(d) Bad Boy Nelson.

4. What river does Brautigan write of in "Education" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Cold Pine River.
(b) Foxwoods River.
(c) Klamath River.
(d) Mississippi River.

5. Brautigan writes Lord Byran died in Greece in what year, in Trout Fishing in America?
(a) 1824.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1900.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where is Brautigan's family's friend in Chapter 5, "The KoolAid Wino" in Trout Fishing in America?

2. Who shows up drunk for dinner in Chapter 33, "The Big Fight" of In Watermelon Sugar?

3. What character is introduced in Chapter 8, "Lighting the Bridges" of In Watermelon Sugar?

4. Brautigan writes to "burn all the ___ to your body" in "The Double-Bed Dream Gallows" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster.

5. What does Brautigan write he wants to shower him with maps in "Map Shower" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

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