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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gus envision himself while speaking of the green and grey in "I Reckon"?
(a) As a lizard.
(b) As a fish.
(c) As a statue.
(d) As a rock.

2. What kind of a conversation do Gus and Titus have in front of the fire in "Fainting Before the Duel"?
(a) A witty one.
(b) A silly one.
(c) A serious one.
(d) A sad one.

3. What does Ma say happens on the otter hunt?
(a) The men hunt only males.
(b) The men slaughter the mother and the babies.
(c) The men save the babies after the mother is killed.
(d) The men spare the mother because of the babies.

4. How did the three third graders get sick in "Being Educated and Gittin' Brung UP"?
(a) Handling the carp made them sick.
(b) Eating the carp made them sick.
(c) Waiting in the rain to see the carp made them sick.
(d) They drank the water from the sewer.

5. What is the difference in philosophies on raising children between Henning and Carolina?
(a) She believes in education, he in discipline.
(b) He believes they should do nothing but fish, she disagrees.
(c) She believes they should do nothing but fish, he disagrees.
(d) He believes in education, she in hands on learning.

6. What does Bill Bob write a check out on for a candy cigarette from Gus?
(a) A page of the Bible.
(b) A comic book.
(c) A fishing manual.
(d) His mother's checkbook.

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

8. What does Gus deem as the crux of Izaak Walton's book?
(a) Religion.
(b) Fishing for a living.
(c) Fishing for fun.
(d) God.

9. How does Alfred die?
(a) The tank is polluted by Gus.
(b) He gets eaten.
(c) Chemicals fall into the water.
(d) Gus forgets to feed him.

10. What does Henning tell Gus will make them part of eternity?
(a) Being close to the water as it will be forever.
(b) Fishing as it will last forever.
(c) Love.
(d) Their energy.

11. How does Ma speak to Henning during their disagreement at the dinner table in "Voiding My Rheum"?
(a) She calls him names referring to his weight.
(b) She calls him names referring to his lack of intelligence.
(c) She curses at him.
(d) She speaks loudly but not meanly.

12. It is said that fishermen are such statisticians that even the fish were counted on what occasion?
(a) When a boat is lost at sea.
(b) With Jesus when he feeds the masses.
(c) After a severe storm.
(d) After a shipwreck.

13. 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 Gus put it there.
(d) He says it half swam, half crawled from a sewer.

14. What makes Gus's journey back to Eaton's dock more difficult?
(a) Other boaters in his way.
(b) Rain.
(c) He lost his paddle.
(d) The dark.

15. What is ironic about the meeting of Carolina and Henning?
(a) Carolina loves fly-fishing.
(b) Henning won't let her fish.
(c) Henning believes she is a he.
(d) Carolina has come to hunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gus equate fly-fishing to for Henning in "The Parental Version"?

2. How does Gus feel after he puts Bill Bob on the bus to go home?

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

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

5. What did Gus give himself as a graduation present?

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