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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, The Compleat Angler: The Great Izaak Walton Conversy: the Parental Version and The Great Izaak Walton Controversy: My Own Rendition.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Zeke's two installments of the story differ?
(a) He reinvents the first installment in the second.
(b) He is drunk for the second installment.
(c) He becomes agitated for the second installment.
(d) He changes the dialect.

2. What was Gus voted in his senior year in high school?
(a) Mr. Fisherman.
(b) Mr. Most-Out-Of-It.
(c) Mr. Bait.
(d) Mr. Fly.

3. How does Henning earn his living?
(a) Through family investments.
(b) As a writer.
(c) Selling fishing equipment.
(d) As a fly-fisherman.

4. What does Gus do with his copy of Izaak Walton's book?
(a) He burns it.
(b) He throws it out.
(c) He puts it on his father's shelf to gather cobwebs.
(d) He gives it to his father telling him it is nonsense.

5. How does Carolina stop Henning from catching the fish he has been trying to reel in all day?
(a) She flirts with him.
(b) She convinces him that he is caught on the bottom.
(c) She uses a worm and catches it herself.
(d) She throws her fishing line over his causing it to snap.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is said that fishermen are such statisticians that even the fish were counted on what occasion?

2. What is Henning's issue with his son being called Bill Bob?

3. At what age does Gus come to the conclusion that Izaak Walton's book is useless?

4. What does Bill Bob write a check out on for a candy cigarette from Gus?

5. What happens in the barroom during the honeymoon of Henning and Carolina?

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