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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 the editor say that the carp got into the parking lot "lake" one spring?
(a) He says it half swam, half crawled from a sewer.
(b) He claims God put it there.
(c) He states the "Fishing Dutchman" put it there.
(d) He says Gus put it there.

3. What does Gus deem as the crux of Izaak Walton's book?
(a) God.
(b) Fishing for fun.
(c) Religion.
(d) Fishing for a living.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What confused Ma about the famous book "The Complete Angler" that Henning gave her to read?

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

3. What happens in the barroom during the honeymoon of Henning and Carolina?

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

5. What word does Bill Bob first say to Gus?

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