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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, The Compleat Angler: Excerpts from the God-notebook and Being Educated and Gittin Brung Up.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Ma handle the folk who come "witnessing"?
(a) She greets them with a shotgun.
(b) She greets them with a cup of tea.
(c) She greets them with an outstretched hand.
(d) She greets them with a yell to go away.

3. At what age does Gus come to the conclusion that Izaak Walton's book is useless?
(a) 10.
(b) 30.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

4. What word does Bill Bob first say to Gus?
(a) Dada.
(b) Potato chip.
(c) Gus.
(d) Mama.

5. What nickname does Gus give to his father?
(a) Fly.
(b) Fisherman.
(c) H2O.
(d) Steelhead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of a dog replaced the Doberman for the surgeon?

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

3. How does Gus believe that he becomes a fishing prodigy?

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

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

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