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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A River Runs Through It.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Norman and Mr. Maclean come to realize?
(a) They need to be kinder to people.
(b) They should see a psychiatrist.
(c) They should take fishing lessons.
(d) They do not know how they could have done anything differently.

2. What happens when the family decides to leave?
(a) Norman offers to bring them back tomorrow.
(b) Norman and Paul have to push the truck out of the mud.
(c) Jessie decides that she wants to stay.
(d) It finally stops raining.

3. Why do Paul and Norman stop fishing to return to the others?
(a) Because it starts to rain
(b) Because they are getting sunburned
(c) Because it gets dark
(d) Because the fish are not biting

4. Norman is a fly fisherman and Jessie's brother is a __________________________.
(a) professional fisherman
(b) bait fisherman
(c) saltwater fisherman
(d) amateur fisherman

5. Why do Norman and Paul have to move to a new fishing hole?
(a) Because too many people are fishing in the area.
(b) Because they want to be closer to Mr. Maclean
(c) Because Paul throws rocks into the river and ruins the hole.
(d) Because the fish have stopped biting in this area.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Norman do after he takes Paul and his girlfriend back to Paul's house?

2. Where do Norman and Paul fish?

3. Who arrives at the train station a few days later?

4. Why are Jessie and her mother tending to Jessie's brother?

5. What does Norman and Paul's father do with them?

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