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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. The poem, "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, talks of deer walking past what?
2. What year is cited in "Alas, Measured Perfectly" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
3. What does Brautigan say he saw crucified on a barbed-wire fence in "The Double-Bed Dream Gallows" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
4. What does Ophelia float like in "The Rape of Ophelia" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
5. Brautigan writes in "Man" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster that the man stands five inches taller than what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What imagery does Brautigan produce in the poem "December 30"?
2. Discuss the tone of the poem "The Return of the Rivers." What does Brautigan describe here?
3. What is the poem "Star-Spangled' Nails" about?
4. How does Brautigan's poetry in The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster differ from his prose in In Watermelon Sugar?
5. In what poems from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster does Brautigan reflect personal thoughts?
6. Describe the subject of the poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace." What does Brautigan hope for in this poem?
7. What imagery is used in the poem, "The Winos on Potrero Hill"?
8. What theme permeates the poem "I Feel Horrible. She Doesn't"? What symbolism supports this theme?
9. What is referred to in the poem "1942" from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster?
10. What qualities are outstanding in the poems of Brautigan in terms of imagery?
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
Discuss the symbolism and motif in Chapter 20, "Worsewick" in Trout Fishing in America. What are the fish representative of in this story?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the structure of Richard Brautigan's poetry. Define and identify the following using the poems as examples: rhyme, meter, assonance, and alliteration.
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