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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Four, The Line of Light: The Raven and the Why, and Googler and Mangler.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Izaak Walton?
(a) A famous fisherman.
(b) An expert on bait fishing.
(c) A writer about fly-fishing.
(d) A friend of Henning's.

2. What does the mouse do at Pedro's house?
(a) It eats the cheese in the traps.
(b) It sets the traps without getting caught.
(c) It sings.
(d) It dances.

3. Why does Gus go home at the end of the chapter "Philosophizing"?
(a) He needs to be around people to think positively about Eddy.
(b) He misses his brother.
(c) He has not been there in a very long time.
(d) He is lonely.

4. What are Henning, Ma, and Bill Bob pretending to play when Gus comes home?
(a) Blind man's bluff.
(b) Go fish.
(c) Duck, Duck, Goose.
(d) Musical chairs.

5. What is the conversation between Ma and Pa about at most dinners?
(a) Neighbors.
(b) The boy's education.
(c) Finances.
(d) Fishing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Steve and Rama take Gus to do in "Jesus Keeps Fishing"?

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

4. How does the huge fight at dinner in "Voiding my Rheum" culminate?

5. What does Gus do to the boy that they call Barf-breath?

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