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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. It is said that fishermen are such statisticians that even the fish were counted on what occasion?
(a) When a boat is lost at sea.
(b) After a severe storm.
(c) With Jesus when he feeds the masses.
(d) After a shipwreck.

2. What doesn't the girl ask Gus?
(a) "What are you afraid of"?
(b) "Where do you live?
(c) "Are you hurt?"
(d) "Did you run away from an asylum?"

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

4. What does Gus do for the first time in a long while with Bill Bob at the cabin?
(a) Sleeps.
(b) Stops fishing.
(c) Enjoys fishing.
(d) Food shops.

5. At the beginning of the "Eddy" chapter what is Gus's plan for himself?
(a) To fall out of the tree and die.
(b) To run and hide.
(c) To meet the girl.
(d) To learn how to speak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Gus tell about the animals in the chapter "The Raven and the Why"?

2. What is amusing about the way Titus speaks while making breakfast for Gus and Descartes?

3. What does the man from Arizona who wants to sell Gus's wares say to Gus?

4. What is Henning's issue with his son being called Bill Bob?

5. What is Gus's digression all about at the end of "The Undoing of a Scientific Angler"?

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