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 allusion is made concerning H2O's need to whip his adversary to death with his fly-wand in "Statistical Improbabilities"?
(a) Beowulf and Grendel.
(b) Isolde and Tristan.
(c) Guinevere and Lancelot.
(d) Romeo and Tybalt.

2. What happens in the barroom during the honeymoon of Henning and Carolina?
(a) Carolina and Henning call a truce.
(b) Carolina admits Henning is a better fisherman.
(c) Henning admits to lying about the number of fish he caught on the honeymoon.
(d) Carolina punches Henning in the nose.

3. What does Ma point out to Henning about the book written by Izaak Walton?
(a) The fishermen don't fish.
(b) The fishermen are alcoholics.
(c) The fishermen know nothing about fishing.
(d) The fishermen are first destructive to animals and then they drink.

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) Moses to the commandments.
(c) An English teacher to Shakespeare.
(d) Mozart to sheet music.

5. How does Carolina stop Henning from catching the fish he has been trying to reel in all day?
(a) She throws her fishing line over his causing it to snap.
(b) She uses a worm and catches it herself.
(c) She flirts with him.
(d) She convinces him that he is caught on the bottom.