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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first item in "Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4" of The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it.
(b) Get enough food to eat, and eat it.
(c) Find God.
(d) Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there.

2. When was "The Star-Spangled Banner" written by Francis Scott Key, as cited in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1931.

3. Which poem in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster reads "Every time I see him, I think:/ Gee, am I glad he's not/ my old man"?
(a) "I'm Hurting. She's Not."
(b) "Sonnet."
(c) "The Way She Looks At It."
(d) "Hair Breakfast."

4. What type of dawn does Brautigan write of in "Your Necklace is Leaking" of The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) East coast.
(b) California.
(c) Mexican.
(d) African.

5. What is one of the women looking at in "Alas, Measured Perfectly" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Horses.
(b) Fish.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Flowers.

6. Where does the kid have "Star Spangled" nails in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) His suitcase.
(b) His car.
(c) His coffin.
(d) His bed.

7. "December 30" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster cites what time in the morning?
(a) 1:15.
(b) 1:11.
(c) 1:03.
(d) 2:34.

8. What does Great Sparrow pull between the children in "Education" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) A red wagon.
(b) A mule cart.
(c) A silver cart.
(d) A blue wagon.

9. What does one of the players have in "Poker Star" from The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Three of a kind.
(b) A full house.
(c) A straight.
(d) Two pair.

10. The poem, "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, talks of deer walking past what?
(a) Caterpillars.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Computers.
(d) Mice.

11. To whom is "The Shenevertakesherwatchoff Poem" dedicated in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Marie.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Marcia.
(d) Pauline.

12. What do the Chinese smoke in "A Postcard from Chinatown" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Opium.
(c) Morphine.
(d) Tobacco.

13. Brautigan writes in "Discovery" of The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, "The petals of the vagina unfold like _________ taking off his shoes."
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Christopher Columbus.
(c) Marcus Arelius.
(d) Kafka.

14. Ophelia encounters an evil what in "The Rape of Ophelia" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Shepherd.
(b) Hunter.
(c) Wolf.
(d) Fisherman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "Death is a Beautiful Car Parked Only" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster is dedicated to whom?

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

3. "I Lie Here in a Strange Girl's Apartment" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster says that the woman is afflicted with what?

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

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

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