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

2. What does Ma say happens on the otter hunt?
(a) The men hunt only males.
(b) The men spare the mother because of the babies.
(c) The men save the babies after the mother is killed.
(d) The men slaughter the mother and the babies.

3. What does Gus do with his copy of Izaak Walton's book?
(a) He burns it.
(b) He throws it out.
(c) He gives it to his father telling him it is nonsense.
(d) He puts it on his father's shelf to gather cobwebs.

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

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