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

2. What is different about Bill Bob's bicycle?
(a) He has placed a large horn on the handlebars.
(b) He has equipped it with multiple objects.
(c) He made the seat very high.
(d) He painted it various colors.

3. 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 says Gus put it there.
(c) He states the "Fishing Dutchman" put it there.
(d) He claims God put it there.

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

5. How does Gus believe that he becomes a fishing prodigy?
(a) His parents taught him as a young boy.
(b) Both of his parents are skilled fishermen.
(c) He knew how to swim in the womb.
(d) He learned it in the womb.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ma speak to Henning during their disagreement at the dinner table in "Voiding My Rheum"?

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

3. Where do Bill Bob and Gus venture to when Bill Bob comes to stay at the cabin?

4. What did Bill Bob spread all over him that Gus had given him in exchange for a check?

5. What allusion is made concerning H2O's need to whip his adversary to death with his fly-wand in "Statistical Improbabilities"?

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