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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What is Titus wearing that Gus admires but says he would never wear?
(a) Camouflage.
(b) Coveralls.
(c) Knickers.
(d) Overalls.

3. 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.

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

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

6. What happened with the Doberman and Ma?
(a) It attacked Gus, so she shot it.
(b) Having escaped from its yard, Ma tamed it.
(c) It attacked Bill Bob, so she beat it with a bat.
(d) Ma aimed the shotgun at the owner after it attacked Gus.

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

8. Why does Zeke tell the story of Carolina and Henning's meeting?
(a) He was with Carolina on the day she met Henning.
(b) He is Henning's brother.
(c) He is Henning's best friend.
(d) He is Carolina's brother.

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

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

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

12. How does Ma handle the folk who come "witnessing"?
(a) She greets them with a shotgun.
(b) She greets them with an outstretched hand.
(c) She greets them with a cup of tea.
(d) She greets them with a yell to go away.

13. What word does Bill Bob first say to Gus?
(a) Mama.
(b) Dada.
(c) Gus.
(d) Potato chip.

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

15. What philosophical question keeps running through Gus's mind in "I Reckon"?
(a) How did life begin?
(b) How many fish can one catch in a day?
(c) How many fish are in the ocean?
(d) What is death?

Short Answer Questions

1. What confused Ma about the famous book "The Complete Angler" that Henning gave her to read?

2. How does Ma speak to Henning during their disagreement at the dinner table in "Voiding My Rheum"?

3. What story does Gus begin to tell at the dinner table in "Voiding My Rheum" that starts an argument between his parents?

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

5. What book does Gus consider the most explosive in existence?

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