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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens between Carolina and Henning the night they first meet?
(a) They agree to disagree about fishing methods.
(b) They conceive a child.
(c) He makes a fire and cooks her a fish dinner.
(d) They argue and go their separate ways.

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

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

4. 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 uses a worm and catches it herself.
(d) She throws her fishing line over his causing it to snap.

5. How long does Gus sleep for after he vomits his breakfast?
(a) Seven days.
(b) Two days.
(c) Twenty-four hours.
(d) Three days.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

15. What is different about Bill Bob's bicycle?
(a) He has placed a large horn on the handlebars.
(b) He made the seat very high.
(c) He has equipped it with multiple objects.
(d) He painted it various colors.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Ma handle the folk who come "witnessing"?

4. What kind of a conversation do Gus and Titus have in front of the fire in "Fainting Before the Duel"?

5. How did the three third graders get sick in "Being Educated and Gittin' Brung UP"?

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