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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Ophelia's clothes spread in "The Rape of Ophelia" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Vine-like.
(b) Mermaid-like.
(c) Fish-like.
(d) Tendril-like.

2. Brautigan writes of a street lined with trees with intestines like what in "Death is a Beautiful Car Parked Only" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Gold.
(b) Rivers.
(c) Emerald.
(d) Cotton candy.

3. Brautigan writes "The Fever Monument" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster while poet-in-residence at what university?
(a) California Institute of Technology.
(b) N.Y.U.
(c) University of California.
(d) U.C.L.A.

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

5. What is the title of the poem in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster which reads, "Ah, you're just a copy of all the candy bars I've ever eaten"?
(a) Xerox Candy Bar.
(b) Candy Hurricane.
(c) Past Candy Bar.
(d) Candy Bar Repeat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Brautigan recall watching a Deanna Durbin movie seven times in Trout Fishing in America?

2. What are the three poker players in "Poker Star" from The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

3. In the poem "I Feel Horrible. She Doesn't" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, what does Brautigan write he wanders around the house like?

4. A pound of what is added to Walnut Catsup in Chapter 6, "Another Way of Making Walnut Catsup" in Trout Fishing in America?

5. Brautigan writes Lord Byran died in Greece in what year, in Trout Fishing in America?

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