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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 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 convinces him that he is caught on the bottom.
(c) She flirts with him.
(d) She uses a worm and catches it herself.

2. What is Izaak Walton?
(a) A writer about fly-fishing.
(b) A famous fisherman.
(c) An expert on bait fishing.
(d) A friend of Henning's.

3. What confused Ma about the famous book "The Complete Angler" that Henning gave her to read?
(a) The s's looked like f's.
(b) The ideas.
(c) The reason why Henning owned it.
(d) The language.

4. What happened with the Doberman and Ma?
(a) Ma aimed the shotgun at the owner after it attacked Gus.
(b) Having escaped from its yard, Ma tamed it.
(c) It attacked Gus, so she shot it.
(d) It attacked Bill Bob, so she beat it with a bat.

5. What kind of a temperament does Bill Bob have?
(a) He is wild.
(b) He is almost too calm.
(c) He is quiet but fun.
(d) He is often excited and surprised.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gus wonder about his father?

2. How do Zeke's two installments of the story differ?

3. Who/what is Nijinsky as mentioned in Chapter 1?

4. At what age does Gus come to the conclusion that Izaak Walton's book is useless?

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

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