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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, The Compleat Angler: The Ideal Schedule and Voiding My Rheum.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What allusion does Gus make to his reading of The Compleat Angler as many times as he did?
(a) Mozart to sheet music.
(b) A historian to world history.
(c) Moses to the commandments.
(d) An English teacher to Shakespeare.

2. What does Gus wonder about his father?
(a) If he loves Gus.
(b) If he loves Ma.
(c) If he loves Bill Bob.
(d) If he loves anyone.

3. To what does the narrator compare a fish's death?
(a) Christmas.
(b) The death of a loved one.
(c) A Baptismal ceremony.
(d) An infant's birth.

4. What happens between Carolina and Henning the night they first meet?
(a) They argue and go their separate ways.
(b) They agree to disagree about fishing methods.
(c) He makes a fire and cooks her a fish dinner.
(d) They conceive a child.

5. How does Gus believe that he becomes a fishing prodigy?
(a) Both of his parents are skilled fishermen.
(b) His parents taught him as a young boy.
(c) He knew how to swim in the womb.
(d) He learned it in the womb.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hours per year does Gus's ideal schedule entail?

2. How did the three third graders get sick in "Being Educated and Gittin' Brung UP"?

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

4. How does Bill Bob spend his time at dinner as told by Gus in "Voiding My Rheum"?

5. What book does Gus consider the most explosive in existence?

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