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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Four, The Line of Light: Nick the Convert and The Trek.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Gus catch the trout in the chapter "Closing the Door"?
(a) He is hungry.
(b) He wants to move it to the polluted water to die.
(c) He wants to catch the last fish in the creek.
(d) He frees it from the polluted water.

2. What is Henning's issue with his son being called Bill Bob?
(a) It is a cowpoke name.
(b) Bill was the name of a man Henning did not like.
(c) No senator, poet, or sea captain ever had such a name.
(d) It sounds like a horse's name.

3. What does the mouse do at Pedro's house?
(a) It sets the traps without getting caught.
(b) It sings.
(c) It eats the cheese in the traps.
(d) It dances.

4. What annoys Gus about the dairy kids?
(a) They wreck his house.
(b) They want him to swim with them.
(c) They take him up on his offer about learning to fish.
(d) They eat everything in his refrigerator.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gus become "famous" in the chapter "Hemingway"?

2. According to Gus in "The Ideal Schedule", what makes fishing even better?

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

4. What happens between Carolina and Henning the night they first meet?

5. What stuffed animal does Rama have with him in "Jesus Keeps Fishing"?

(see the answer key)

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