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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. What does Gus equate fly-fishing to for Henning in "The Parental Version"?
(a) A good book.
(b) Eating.
(c) Champagne.
(d) Religion.

2. What does Gus say of devoted people in "Excerpts from the God-notebook"?
(a) That they are warm and friendly people.
(b) That they are pushy, one-sided people.
(c) That they usually keep to themselves.
(d) That they are found to be nervous, belligerent people.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gus decide about God by writing in his notebook?

2. What is Henning's issue with his son being called Bill Bob?

3. To what does the narrator compare a fish's death?

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

5. What was Gus voted in his senior year in high school?

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