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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Five: At the End of the Line.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the huge fight at dinner in "Voiding my Rheum" culminate?
(a) Henning smacks Gus.
(b) Ma fires her shotgun.
(c) In laughter.
(d) Gus storms out.

2. What happens between Carolina and Henning the night they first meet?
(a) They conceive a child.
(b) They agree to disagree about fishing methods.
(c) They argue and go their separate ways.
(d) He makes a fire and cooks her a fish dinner.

3. What doesn't the girl ask Gus?
(a) "What are you afraid of"?
(b) "Did you run away from an asylum?"
(c) "Where do you live?
(d) "Are you hurt?"

4. What is Ma's philosophy concerning death?
(a) Everyone goes to Heaven.
(b) It is just a continuum of life.
(c) Only fishermen will be in her afterlife.
(d) Only the dead understand it, so no use talking about it.

5. Why does Henning laugh a "lunatic laughter" that can be heard around the canyon?
(a) Carolina clenches her fists and hits Henning in the jaw.
(b) Carolina draws a pistol and shoots the fish.
(c) Carolina catches his 30 pound steelhead with a worm.
(d) Carolina falls into the river trying to catch a small steelhead.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far does Gus go on his trek in the chapter titled the same?

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

3. What does Arjuna tell Hemingway will happen to him if he eats meat?

4. What does Henning do about the Izaak Walton book to prove to Ma that her opinion of it is wrong?

5. When Titus keeps asking Gus philosophical questions, what does Gus continue to answer?

(see the answer key)

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