View a FREE sample

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 happened with the Doberman and Ma?
(a) Ma aimed the shotgun at the owner after it attacked Gus.
(b) It attacked Bill Bob, so she beat it with a bat.
(c) It attacked Gus, so she shot it.
(d) Having escaped from its yard, Ma tamed it.

2. 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 flirts with him.
(c) She convinces him that he is caught on the bottom.
(d) She uses a worm and catches it herself.

3. What does Ma point out to Henning about the book written by Izaak Walton?
(a) The fishermen don't fish.
(b) The fishermen are first destructive to animals and then they drink.
(c) The fishermen know nothing about fishing.
(d) The fishermen are alcoholics.

4. What does Gus equate fly-fishing to for Henning in "The Parental Version"?
(a) Eating.
(b) Religion.
(c) A good book.
(d) Champagne.

5. What does Gus wonder about his father?
(a) If he loves anyone.
(b) If he loves Ma.
(c) If he loves Bill Bob.
(d) If he loves Gus.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare a fish's death?

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

3. How did the three third graders get sick in "Being Educated and Gittin' Brung UP"?

4. What gift does Henning give to Gus for the cabin?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 347 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample