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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ironic about the modern name for the creek, the US Grant?
(a) The creek is weak not strong like the name.
(b) It has the same meaning as its Native American name.
(c) It is the same name Gus gave it when he was a boy.
(d) It is the opposite of its Native American name.

2. Why is one reason Titus did not give for believing that Eddy will find Gus again?
(a) He was being chivalrous, not creepy.
(b) He has her pole.
(c) He told her she was beautiful.
(d) He gave her quotations to match her pole.

3. When Titus keeps asking Gus philosophical questions, what does Gus continue to answer?
(a) "Don't matter."
(b) "Wish I knew that."
(c) "No one knows."
(d) "God."

4. Who are Googler and Mangler?
(a) Names of two fish Hemingway caught.
(b) New friends of the dairy farm kids.
(c) Invisible friends of Arjuna and Hemingway.
(d) Spirits.

5. What does Gus envision right before he grants Dutch the interview?
(a) Owning a yacht.
(b) A world run by fish.
(c) A perfect fish universe that he creates.
(d) Being President.

6. What do Steve and Satyavati make?
(a) Baggy Pants.
(b) Hatchets.
(c) Candles.
(d) Hair Clips.

7. What name does Gus give God?
(a) Sigrid.
(b) Abe.
(c) Whopper.
(d) Allah.

8. How does Ma view dams?
(a) She feels they are a necessary evil.
(b) She hates them for destroying the salmon.
(c) She thinks they are needed.
(d) She applauds them for what they do.

9. Why does Gus catch the trout in the chapter "Closing the Door"?
(a) He wants to catch the last fish in the creek.
(b) He is hungry.
(c) He wants to move it to the polluted water to die.
(d) He frees it from the polluted water.

10. What does Arjuna tell Hemingway will happen to him if he eats meat?
(a) He will die.
(b) His heart will stop.
(c) He will turn into a girl.
(d) He will be castrated.

11. What annoys Gus about the dairy kids?
(a) They want him to swim with them.
(b) They eat everything in his refrigerator.
(c) They take him up on his offer about learning to fish.
(d) They wreck his house.

12. What does Gus buy from Emma that belonged to Hemingway?
(a) A duck.
(b) A goat.
(c) A cow.
(d) A sheep.

13. What does the man from Arizona who wants to sell Gus's wares say to Gus?
(a) "My loss."
(b) "Maybe next time."
(c) "Loser."
(d) "You're missing the opportunity of a lifetime."

14. Why does Ma write to Gus after she reads the interview?
(a) She is proud of Gus for duping Dutch.
(b) She is curious.
(c) She is angry with Gus for duping Dutch.
(d) She is sad that Gus would dupe Dutch.

15. What does Gus do to Sigrid at the end of the chapter "Neighbors"?
(a) He sets her free in the river.
(b) He gives her to the boys.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He eats her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What figurative door does Gus close at the end of the chapter of the same name?

2. Why is Gus so taken by the girl in the tree in "The Warble of the Water Owl"?

3. What inanimate object does Titus use to explain God to Gus?

4. What does Attar call God as explained by Titus to Gus?

5. How does Eddy know that Gus was watching her when she was fishing naked?

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