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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about Bill Bob's bicycle?

2. What was Gus voted in his senior year in high school?

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

4. What does Gus decide about God by writing in his notebook?

5. When Gus wakes up in "I Reckon" why doesn't he know what time it is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Izaak Walton's book about according to Ma? (Describe specific tales from it that she tells)

2. How do Titus and Gus connect?

3. What happens with Gus and Abe? How does Gus speak to Abe? Why does he speak to Abe in this fashion?

4. What is Carolina's philosophy about the human fetus?

5. What is a dreefee and how does it affect the Orviston household?

6. In what ways does Ma use her shotgun and what does this say about her and the way she raises her children?

7. How does Gus describe his parents' relationship?

8. What does Gus see as the problem with Ma's two emotions that Gus describes in full at the end of the chapter "Being Educated & Gittin' Brung Up"?

9. What does the God notebook tell the reader about Gus's beliefs?

10. Gus does not believe in the vandalism that teenagers cause. What does he do instead?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the religious theme of the story and how does it affect the major characters?

Essay Topic 2

Address the huge fight at the dinner before Gus leaves to the fishing cabin. What is revealed about his feelings towards his mother and father? What does his eruption say about the way he deals with his feelings? What are their reactions? What do their reactions say about their parenting?

Essay Topic 3

What does Eddy teach Gus about God? How does she do this?

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