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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is amusing about the way Titus speaks while making breakfast for Gus and Descartes?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) He speaks for Descartes with a french accent.
(c) He mimics Descartes and barks.
(d) He speaks for Descartes in a dog voice.

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

3. What story does Gus tell about the animals in the chapter "The Raven and the Why"?
(a) About the boy and the chipmunk.
(b) About the bear saving the elk.
(c) About the cedar and the squirrel.
(d) About the spirit helper.

4. What does the river spell?
(a) Why?
(b) When?
(c) God.
(d) Who?

5. What metaphor does Gus use about Mikey and Show and Tell?
(a) A pet rabbit.
(b) A fat pencil.
(c) A stuffed bear.
(d) A snake.

6. What inanimate object does Titus use to explain God to Gus?
(a) Nijinsky, the stuffed fish.
(b) Tamanawis, the river.
(c) Rodney, the fishing pole.
(d) Ezra Brooks, the bourbon.

7. What story does Nick tell Gus?
(a) A fishing story about a shark.
(b) A war story in which he finds God.
(c) A story about a mean chaplain.
(d) A love story.

8. What does Eddy tell Gus that surprises him?
(a) She doesn't like to fish.
(b) She had wanted to meet him for a long time.
(c) She knew who he was before he saw her.
(d) She had been spying on him too.

9. What was Titus doing so badly in "Jesus Keeps Fishing?"
(a) Dancing.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Quoting.
(d) Fly-fishing.

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

11. In the beginning of "The River Writes" how does Gus now view himself in regard to fishing?
(a) As a murderer.
(b) As an amateur.
(c) As an expert.
(d) As a sportsman.

12. Why does Gus go home at the end of the chapter "Philosophizing"?
(a) He misses his brother.
(b) He is lonely.
(c) He has not been there in a very long time.
(d) He needs to be around people to think positively about Eddy.

13. What does Gus discover at the end of the chapter "The Line of Light"?
(a) All of the answers.
(b) Eddy.
(c) God.
(d) The best way to fish.

14. 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 knows more about fish than Gus does.
(c) The old man scares the fish away.
(d) The old man is stupid.

15. When Gus awakes in "the River Writes" what does he see in nature?
(a) The Garden Queen's robe.
(b) The answer to his existence.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Descartes looking at Gus strangely?

2. What method of fishing does Gus teach the old man in the chapter "Dutch"?

3. What does Eddy promise Gus when she leaves?

4. What does Gus do to Sigrid at the end of the chapter "Neighbors"?

5. Why does Gus catch the trout in the chapter "Closing the Door"?

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