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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two, The Undoing of a Scientific Angler: Where I Lived and What I Lived for and Water on the Brain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the cabin lacking?
(a) Running water.
(b) A toilet.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Heat.

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

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

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

5. Who were Gus's closest neighbors at the cabin?
(a) A tree farmer and his wife.
(b) A rancher and his family.
(c) A dairy farmer and his family.
(d) A fisherman and his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the conversation between Ma and Pa about at most dinners?

2. What nickname does Gus give to his father?

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

4. How does Bill Bob spend his time at dinner as told by Gus in "Voiding My Rheum"?

5. What book does Gus consider the most explosive in existence?

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