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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two, The Undoing of a Scientific Angler: Where I Lived and What I Lived for and Water on the Brain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Where do Bill Bob and Gus venture to when Bill Bob comes to stay at the cabin?
(a) Up a 500 foot ridge.
(b) To another river.
(c) To town.
(d) To the farm.

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

4. At what age does Gus come to the conclusion that Izaak Walton's book is useless?
(a) 30.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

5. What word does Bill Bob first say to Gus?
(a) Mama.
(b) Dada.
(c) Gus.
(d) Potato chip.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ma say happens on the otter hunt?

2. How does the editor say that the carp got into the parking lot "lake" one spring?

3. What story does Gus begin to tell at the dinner table in "Voiding My Rheum" that starts an argument between his parents?

4. How does Alfred die?

5. What does Gus do for the first time in a long while with Bill Bob at the cabin?

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