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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two, The Undoing of Scientific Angler: I Reckon and Anamnesis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the reader learn about Bill Bob in "Anamnesis" that wasn't known before?
(a) Bill Bob is very bright.
(b) Bill Bob is dying.
(c) Bill Bob is very unhappy.
(d) Bill Bob is mentally challenged.

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

3. How did the three third graders get sick in "Being Educated and Gittin' Brung UP"?
(a) They drank the water from the sewer.
(b) Handling the carp made them sick.
(c) Eating the carp made them sick.
(d) Waiting in the rain to see the carp made them sick.

4. What does Gus do for the first time in a long while with Bill Bob at the cabin?
(a) Sleeps.
(b) Food shops.
(c) Enjoys fishing.
(d) Stops fishing.

5. What is the conversation between Ma and Pa about at most dinners?
(a) Finances.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Neighbors.
(d) The boy's education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gus deem as the crux of Izaak Walton's book?

2. It is said that fishermen are such statisticians that even the fish were counted on what occasion?

3. What does Gus say of devoted people in "Excerpts from the God-notebook"?

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

5. What is Izaak Walton?

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