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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years after Charles Hayman's death do Game and Fish decide to place trout in Hayman Creek in Trout Fishing in America?

2. What does the waterfall turn out to be in Chapter 3, "Knock on Wood, Part II," of Trout Fishing in America?

3. What is living up high in the mountains at Grider Creek, according to Brautigan in Chapter 8, "Grider Creek" in Trout Fishing in America?

4. In Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 20, "Worsewick," Brautigan describes having sex with a woman in a stream full of what?

5. Brautigan finds a statue of a what in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 23, "On Paradise"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 14 of Trout Fishing in America, "The Last Year the Trout Came up Hayman Creek," how long is it until game and fish officials come and what happens?

2. What childhood memory is revisited by Brautigan in Chapter 5, "The KoolAid Wino" in Trout Fishing in America?

3. What is the story Brautigan relates in Trout Fishing in America, Chapter 3, "Knock on Wood, Part II"?

4. Who does Brautigan encounter in Chapter 17, "The Message"? What simile does he use to describe this person?

5. What does Brautigan write that he admires in the story of Chapter 8, "Grider Creek" in Trout Fishing in America?

6. Where does Chapter 4, "Red Lip" take place in Trout Fishing in America? What happens in this story?

7. Describe the autopsy report written by Brautigan in Trout Fishing in America. To whom is Trout Fishing in America compared?

8. What is the phrase "Trout Fishing in America" used to refer to in Trout Fishing in America?

9. Describe Brautigan's account with the woman in the creek of dead fish in Trout Fishing in America. What imagery is used?

10. Who is described in In Chapter 7, "Prologue to Grider Creek" in Trout Fishing in America?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the characters of Pauline and Margaret in In Watermelon Sugar. How do their relationships to the narrator differ?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the poems "Discovery" and "Star-Spangled' Nails." How do the poems relate structurally? Thematically?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the plot structure of In Watermelon Sugar. How does the novel differ structurally from Trout Fishing in America?

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