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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 is Gus's digression all about at the end of "The Undoing of a Scientific Angler"?
(a) Water.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Steelheads.
(d) Brothers.

2. What does Ma retell about the mule and the pike?
(a) The men save the mule from the pike that jumps up to bite the mule's lip.
(b) The mule attempts to catch the jumping pike which makes the men laugh.
(c) The pike jumps up and scares the mule who runs into the river.
(d) The pike jumps up and bite the mule's lip while the men laugh.

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

4. How does the editor say that the carp got into the parking lot "lake" one spring?
(a) He claims God put it there.
(b) He states the "Fishing Dutchman" put it there.
(c) He says it half swam, half crawled from a sewer.
(d) He says Gus put it there.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Gus wakes up in "I Reckon" why doesn't he know what time it is?

3. What does Maggie try to get Gus to do?

4. What is ironic about the meeting of Carolina and Henning?

5. What makes Gus's journey back to Eaton's dock more difficult?

(see the answer key)

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