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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three, Characters in Nature: Eddy and Jesus Keeps Fishing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is one reason Titus did not give for believing that Eddy will find Gus again?
(a) He told her she was beautiful.
(b) He was being chivalrous, not creepy.
(c) He gave her quotations to match her pole.
(d) He has her pole.

2. How does the editor say that the carp got into the parking lot "lake" one spring?
(a) He says Gus put it there.
(b) He states the "Fishing Dutchman" put it there.
(c) He claims God put it there.
(d) He says it half swam, half crawled from a sewer.

3. What does Gus decide about God by writing in his notebook?
(a) God is of no use to him.
(b) God is the one who makes him want to fish.
(c) God doesn't care what he does as long as he doesn't hurt people.
(d) God will leave him alone if he is a good boy.

4. What is Ma's philosophy concerning death?
(a) Only the dead understand it, so no use talking about it.
(b) Everyone goes to Heaven.
(c) Only fishermen will be in her afterlife.
(d) It is just a continuum of life.

5. What is the difference in philosophies on raising children between Henning and Carolina?
(a) He believes they should do nothing but fish, she disagrees.
(b) She believes they should do nothing but fish, he disagrees.
(c) He believes in education, she in hands on learning.
(d) She believes in education, he in discipline.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What doesn't the girl ask Gus?

4. How does Carolina make GC feel better about her grandson fishing on Sundays?

5. What stuffed animal does Rama have with him in "Jesus Keeps Fishing"?

(see the answer key)

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