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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. Which poem from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster ends with the line, "Without you, I am dead"?
(a) "Adrenalin Mother."
(b) "Artichoke Mother."
(c) "Sonnett."
(d) "Alibone Dinner."

2. What color light drips in "Your Necklace is Leaking" of The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Silver.
(d) Red.

3. 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) Rivers.
(b) Cotton candy.
(c) Emerald.
(d) Gold.

4. In Chapter 7, "Prologue to Grider Creek" of Trout Fishing in America, a man buys a house whose basement is filled with what?
(a) Cats.
(b) Fleas.
(c) Rats.
(d) Dogs.

5. How many years after Charles Hayman's death do Game and Fish decide to place trout in Hayman Creek in Trout Fishing in America?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 20 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the field boss under whom Brautigan works as a cherry-picker in Trout Fishing in America?

2. Brautigan writes in "Man" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster that the man stands five inches taller than what?

3. What has been placed along the creek to kill coyotes in Trout Fishing in America's Chapter 25, "The Salt Creek Coyotes"?

4. From where are the visiting winos Brautigan drinks with in Chapter 10, "A Walden Pond for Winos" in Trout Fishing in America?

5. Brautigan writes "The Fever Monument" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster while poet-in-residence at what university?

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