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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, The Compleat Angler: The Great Izaak Walton Conversy: the Parental Version and The Great Izaak Walton Controversy: My Own Rendition.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Bill Bob spread all over him that Gus had given him in exchange for a check?
(a) Hershey Kisses.
(b) M & Ms.
(c) Chocolate sauce.
(d) Hot fudge.

2. What does Bill Bob write a check out on for a candy cigarette from Gus?
(a) His mother's checkbook.
(b) A page of the Bible.
(c) A fishing manual.
(d) A comic book.

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

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

5. How did Gus react when Henning was going to whup Bill Bob for writing in the book in "Statistical Improbabilities"?
(a) He howled with laughter.
(b) He yelled for his mother.
(c) He cried.
(d) He begged his father not to "whup" Bill Bob.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Carolina stop Henning from catching the fish he has been trying to reel in all day?

2. How do Zeke's two installments of the story differ?

3. Why does Henning laugh a "lunatic laughter" that can be heard around the canyon?

4. At what age does Gus come to the conclusion that Izaak Walton's book is useless?

5. What allusion does Gus make to his reading of The Compleat Angler as many times as he did?

(see the answer key)

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