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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. How do Zeke's two installments of the story differ?
(a) He is drunk for the second installment.
(b) He reinvents the first installment in the second.
(c) He changes the dialect.
(d) He becomes agitated for the second installment.

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

3. Who/what is Nijinsky as mentioned in Chapter 1?
(a) A fishing rod.
(b) Henning's brother.
(c) The steelhead Hen is trying to catch.
(d) Carolina's nickname.

4. 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) With Jesus when he feeds the masses.
(c) After a severe storm.
(d) After a shipwreck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Zeke tell the story of Carolina and Henning's meeting?

2. How is Gus considered by others in the public school system as a young boy?

3. What allusion is made concerning H2O's need to whip his adversary to death with his fly-wand in "Statistical Improbabilities"?

4. What happens between Carolina and Henning the night they first meet?

5. What does Ma retell about the mule and the pike?

(see the answer key)

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