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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 does Gus equate fly-fishing to for Henning in "The Parental Version"?
(a) Religion.
(b) A good book.
(c) Champagne.
(d) Eating.

2. Why did Gnat name the large mouthed bass "Garbage Gut"?
(a) The kids fed the bass real garbage like paper plates and plastic forks.
(b) Eating this bass would make your gut feel like garbage.
(c) Because the bass waited for the picnickers to throw their trash into the river.
(d) Large mouthed bass taste like garbage.

3. How many hours per year does Gus's ideal schedule entail?
(a) 8000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 1500.
(d) 4,000.

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

5. What does Gus say of devoted people in "Excerpts from the God-notebook"?
(a) That they are warm and friendly people.
(b) That they are found to be nervous, belligerent people.
(c) That they are pushy, one-sided people.
(d) That they usually keep to themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ma say happens on the otter hunt?

2. What kind of a dog replaced the Doberman for the surgeon?

3. To what does the narrator compare a fish's death?

4. How does Ma speak to Henning during their disagreement at the dinner table in "Voiding My Rheum"?

5. What does Gus wonder about his father?

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