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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the mouse do at Pedro's house?
(a) It sets the traps without getting caught.
(b) It eats the cheese in the traps.
(c) It sings.
(d) It dances.

2. What are Ma, Henning, and Bill Bob actually doing when Gus comes home?
(a) Telling jokes.
(b) Playing charades.
(c) Sabotaging each other's fishing gear.
(d) Creating new flies.

3. What does Descartes compare eating cat dung to for humans?
(a) Hamburgers.
(b) Caviar.
(c) Alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco.
(d) Marijuana and opium.

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

5. What does Gus need to help him tell Titus his problems?
(a) Beer.
(b) Bourbon.
(c) A good night's sleep.
(d) A good meal.

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

7. Why is Gus bothered by the old man that he meets at Shat Creek in the chapter "Dutch"?
(a) The old man won't stop talking.
(b) The old man is stupid.
(c) The old man knows more about fish than Gus does.
(d) The old man scares the fish away.

8. Who is waiting in the cabin for Gus when he comes home from the Halloween party?
(a) Bill Bob.
(b) Eddy.
(c) Ma.
(d) Nick.

9. What Native American story does Gus tell?
(a) About the moon and the sky.
(b) About the flowers and the rain.
(c) About the ocean and the sun.
(d) About the stars and the earth.

10. What are Henning, Ma, and Bill Bob pretending to play when Gus comes home?
(a) Musical chairs.
(b) Go fish.
(c) Blind man's bluff.
(d) Duck, Duck, Goose.

11. What do Steve and Rama take Gus to do in "Jesus Keeps Fishing"?
(a) Build a bonfire.
(b) Take a ride on the river.
(c) Go to breakfast.
(d) Take a walk up the mountain.

12. How far does Gus go on his trek in the chapter titled the same?
(a) 5 miles.
(b) 20 miles.
(c) 50 miles.
(d) 40 miles.

13. What does Gus come to realize about the "source"?
(a) That it does not exist.
(b) That it is everywhere.
(c) That it cannot be found.
(d) That it has no meaning.

14. What does Eddy promise Gus when she leaves?
(a) That she loves him.
(b) That she will return the next evening.
(c) That she will call him.
(d) That she will return to stay.

15. What happens to Whitey in "Jesus Keeps Fishing"?
(a) He almost drowns.
(b) He gets lost.
(c) He gets left behind on the mountain.
(d) He gets caught in a tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one name of the dairy kids that Gus liked?

2. What was Titus doing so badly in "Jesus Keeps Fishing?"

3. What do Titus and Gus do after Gus comes to an understanding about God?

4. How does Gus dupe Dutch?

5. What does Gus discover at the end of the chapter "The Line of Light"?

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