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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 go fishing in Chapter 12, "Trout Fishing on the Bevel" of Trout Fishing in America?
(a) Tom Martin Creek.
(b) Anderson Creek.
(c) Sal Winter Creek.
(d) Graveyard Creek.

2. In Chapter 36, "Sandbox Minus John Dillinger Equals What?" of Trout Fishing in America, who does Brautigan recall setting up John Dillinger?
(a) The woman in black.
(b) The woman in white.
(c) The woman in blue.
(d) The woman in red.

3. Brautigan writes to "burn all the ___ to your body" in "The Double-Bed Dream Gallows" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster.
(a) Hair.
(b) Kisses.
(c) Maps.
(d) Love.

4. When is the best time to climb the silver stairs in "The Silver Stairs of Ketchikan" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) 4 a.m.
(b) 2 a.m.
(c) 1 a.m.
(d) 3 a.m.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, "In Watermelon Sugar" the narrator says he lives in a shack near iDEATH made of "pine, watermelon sugar and" what?

2. In Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 13, "Sea, Sea Rider," the bookstore owner spins a tale, telling the narrator he fell in love with a woman during the what?

3. What time is cited in "Alas, Measured Perfectly" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

4. What is one of the women holding in "Alas, Measured Perfectly" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

5. What year is cited in "Alas, Measured Perfectly" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

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