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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 does Gus wonder about his father?

2. What is Bill Bob playing with when Gus finds him behind the cabin?

3. Where do Bill Bob and Gus venture to when Bill Bob comes to stay at the cabin?

4. What does Gus say of devoted people in "Excerpts from the God-notebook"?

5. How does Gus envision himself while speaking of the green and grey in "I Reckon"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do statistics mean to the angler?

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

3. How does Gus plan his life to maximize his fishing time?

4. Explain Bill Bob's concept of life and death.

5. How does Gus react during the argument at dinner when he realizes that his parents only care about their own argument and not the story he is telling?

6. How does the "Rogue River War" create a stronger bond between Carolina and Henning rather than breaking them apart due to their differences?

7. What happens to Gus emotionally in the first few months alone in the cabin?

8. Is the argument in "Voiding My Rheum" healing or destructive? Defend your answer.

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

10. How does Maggie add comic relief to a very serious situation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are Titus and Descartes comic relief? Why is comic relief a welcome visitor in the story?

Essay Topic 2

In the early chapters of the novel, Duncan gives strong indicators of how Gus sees the way his parents feel about their children. What are Gus's deepest thoughts? How does he express them? How do they affect Gus?

Essay Topic 3

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

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