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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How does Gus get back home?
(a) Titus drives him.
(b) Maggie takes him.
(c) He drives himself.
(d) The police bring him home.

3. According to Gus in "The Ideal Schedule", what makes fishing even better?
(a) Not fishing all of the time.
(b) Fishing every day.
(c) Fishing in the early morning.
(d) Fishing with Bill Bob.

4. What kind of a dog replaced the Doberman for the surgeon?
(a) A Chihuahua.
(b) Another Doberman.
(c) A Beagle.
(d) A Greyhound.

5. What story does Gus begin to tell at the dinner table in "Voiding My Rheum" that starts an argument between his parents?
(a) About catching a large mouthed bass.
(b) About leasing a fishing cabin.
(c) About problems with his grades.
(d) About Bill Bob's dinner habits.

6. What does the reader learn about Bill Bob in "Anamnesis" that wasn't known before?
(a) Bill Bob is mentally challenged.
(b) Bill Bob is very bright.
(c) Bill Bob is dying.
(d) Bill Bob is very unhappy.

7. What is Bill Bob playing with when Gus finds him behind the cabin?
(a) Chipmunks.
(b) Toads.
(c) Squirrels.
(d) Salamanders.

8. What was Gus voted in his senior year in high school?
(a) Mr. Fly.
(b) Mr. Most-Out-Of-It.
(c) Mr. Bait.
(d) Mr. Fisherman.

9. What does Gus do about his depression?
(a) He cuts himself off from all humans.
(b) He visits home.
(c) He fishes less and socializes more.
(d) He goes to see a psychiatrist.

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

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

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

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

14. Where do Bill Bob and Gus venture to when Bill Bob comes to stay at the cabin?
(a) To town.
(b) Up a 500 foot ridge.
(c) To another river.
(d) To the farm.

15. What does Titus do while he speaks with Gus in front of the fire?
(a) He reads poetry.
(b) He falls in and out of sleep.
(c) He smokes a cigar.
(d) He wraps himself in blankets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henning do to his copy of Izaak Walton's book?

2. What kind of a temperament does Bill Bob have?

3. What philosophical question keeps running through Gus's mind in "I Reckon"?

4. What is Gus drinking while he warms in front of the fire with Titus?

5. What does Gus do with his copy of Izaak Walton's book?

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