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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 Ma speak to Henning during their disagreement at the dinner table in "Voiding My Rheum"?
(a) She calls him names referring to his lack of intelligence.
(b) She calls him names referring to his weight.
(c) She speaks loudly but not meanly.
(d) She curses at him.

2. How does Gus feel after he puts Bill Bob on the bus to go home?
(a) Hollow.
(b) Happy to be alone again.
(c) Angry.
(d) Tired.

3. What allusion is made concerning H2O's need to whip his adversary to death with his fly-wand in "Statistical Improbabilities"?
(a) Guinevere and Lancelot.
(b) Beowulf and Grendel.
(c) Romeo and Tybalt.
(d) Isolde and Tristan.

4. What word does Bill Bob first say to Gus?
(a) Gus.
(b) Mama.
(c) Dada.
(d) Potato chip.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Gus wonder about his father?

4. What happened with the Doberman and Ma?

5. How does Alfred die?

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