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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) "The Way She Looks At It."
(b) "Hair Breakfast."
(c) "I'm Hurting. She's Not."
(d) "Sonnet."

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

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?
(a) An eagle.
(b) A frog.
(c) A hawk.
(d) A chicken.

4. 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) U.C.L.A.
(c) University of California.
(d) N.Y.U.

5. What season is it in "The Double-Bed Dream Gallows" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?
(a) Spring.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Autumn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time is cited in "Alas, Measured Perfectly" from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

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

3. What river does Brautigan write of in "Education" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

4. "A fart smells like a marriage between an avocado and a" what in "December 30" in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

5. What was the poem "San Francisco" written on in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Brautigan's use of nonsensical, surreal imagery in the poem "Yes, the Fish Music." What is the purpose of the imagery?

2. Where does Brautigan's humor arise in the poem "Haiku Ambulance"? How?

3. What is the poem "Star-Spangled' Nails" about?

4. To what is Brautigan referring in the poem, "The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster"?

5. What description does Brautigan illustrate in the poem "Poker Star"?

6. What similes and metaphors are used in the poem "Sonnet" from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster?

7. What is the emotional state of Brautigan in the poem "Boo, Forever"?

8. In which poem does Brautigan refer to the Hindenberg Disaster? How?

9. How does Brautigan's poetry in The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster differ from his prose in In Watermelon Sugar?

10. What theme permeates the poem "I Feel Horrible. She Doesn't"? What symbolism supports this theme?

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