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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 Carolina stop Henning from catching the fish he has been trying to reel in all day?
(a) She convinces him that he is caught on the bottom.
(b) She flirts with him.
(c) She throws her fishing line over his causing it to snap.
(d) She uses a worm and catches it herself.

2. Why did Gnat name the large mouthed bass "Garbage Gut"?
(a) Large mouthed bass taste like garbage.
(b) The kids fed the bass real garbage like paper plates and plastic forks.
(c) Because the bass waited for the picnickers to throw their trash into the river.
(d) Eating this bass would make your gut feel like garbage.

3. What confused Ma about the famous book "The Complete Angler" that Henning gave her to read?
(a) The ideas.
(b) The language.
(c) The s's looked like f's.
(d) The reason why Henning owned it.

4. At the beginning of the "Eddy" chapter what is Gus's plan for himself?
(a) To learn how to speak.
(b) To fall out of the tree and die.
(c) To meet the girl.
(d) To run and hide.

5. To what does the narrator compare a fish's death?
(a) Christmas.
(b) The death of a loved one.
(c) An infant's birth.
(d) A Baptismal ceremony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill Bob write a check out on for a candy cigarette from Gus?

2. What happens in the barroom during the honeymoon of Henning and Carolina?

3. How did Gus react when Henning was going to whup Bill Bob for writing in the book in "Statistical Improbabilities"?

4. What is Bill Bob's new pastime that Gus discovers when he comes home?

5. How does the huge fight at dinner in "Voiding my Rheum" culminate?

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