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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gus say of devoted people in "Excerpts from the God-notebook"?
(a) That they usually keep to themselves.
(b) That they are pushy, one-sided people.
(c) That they are warm and friendly people.
(d) That they are found to be nervous, belligerent people.

2. What does Gus wonder about his father?
(a) If he loves Gus.
(b) If he loves anyone.
(c) If he loves Bill Bob.
(d) If he loves Ma.

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

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

5. 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) Large mouthed bass taste like garbage.
(c) Eating this bass would make your gut feel like garbage.
(d) The kids fed the bass real garbage like paper plates and plastic forks.

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

7. What does Bill Bob tell Gus about Garden Angels?
(a) They are spirits that watch over humans.
(b) They are our human twins that are born when we die.
(c) They grow old as humans do.
(d) They never die.

8. How do Zeke's two installments of the story differ?
(a) He becomes agitated for the second installment.
(b) He reinvents the first installment in the second.
(c) He is drunk for the second installment.
(d) He changes the dialect.

9. When Gus wakes up in "I Reckon" why doesn't he know what time it is?
(a) His watch is missing.
(b) He does not know how long he slept.
(c) The fog is so thick, that he can't tell if it is day or night.
(d) His head hurts so much that he can't read his watch.

10. At what age does Gus come to the conclusion that Izaak Walton's book is useless?
(a) 10.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

11. What gift does Henning give to Gus for the cabin?
(a) An aquarium.
(b) A cord of wood.
(c) Flashlights.
(d) Fishing paintings.

12. What kind of a temperament does Bill Bob have?
(a) He is quiet but fun.
(b) He is wild.
(c) He is often excited and surprised.
(d) He is almost too calm.

13. Who/what is Nijinsky as mentioned in Chapter 1?
(a) Carolina's nickname.
(b) Henning's brother.
(c) A fishing rod.
(d) The steelhead Hen is trying to catch.

14. What does Gus do with his copy of Izaak Walton's book?
(a) He burns it.
(b) He throws it out.
(c) He puts it on his father's shelf to gather cobwebs.
(d) He gives it to his father telling him it is nonsense.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the editor say that the carp got into the parking lot "lake" one spring?

2. What allusion does Gus make to his reading of The Compleat Angler as many times as he did?

3. Who were Gus's closest neighbors at the cabin?

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

5. Why is Gus the one who tucks Bill Bob in at night?

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