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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Titus and Gus do after Gus comes to an understanding about God?
(a) They sleep.
(b) They eat pizza and drink beer.
(c) They drink more bourbon.
(d) They fish.

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

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

4. What will Gus and Titus trade?
(a) Girls for bourbon.
(b) Secrets for secrets.
(c) Fishing for philosophy.
(d) Dinner for love advice.

5. What doesn't the girl ask Gus?
(a) "Did you run away from an asylum?"
(b) "What are you afraid of"?
(c) "Are you hurt?"
(d) "Where do you live?

6. What do Ernie, Emma, and the kids give to Gus in return for fishing lessons?
(a) A puppy.
(b) Fruits and vegetables.
(c) A home cooked meal.
(d) Hugs.

7. What does Gus do when the girl leaves?
(a) He fishes alone.
(b) He goes home.
(c) He falls out of the tree.
(d) He follows her with his truck.

8. How does Gus become "famous" in the chapter "Hemingway"?
(a) He saves one of the dairy kids from a hunting accident.
(b) He saves a man drowning in the river.
(c) He gets in a car crash while hitching back home and saves the driver.
(d) He catches a 10 pound fish with the dairy kids.

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

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

11. Why does it take Eddy so long to get from Portland to Tamanawis?
(a) Her car kept breaking down.
(b) She got lost.
(c) She kept turning around.
(d) She stopped to eat.

12. How does Eddy know that Gus was watching her when she was fishing naked?
(a) Hemingway told her.
(b) Steve told her.
(c) She had seen him.
(d) She found the oranges downstream.

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

14. How does Gus's refrigerator transform into one filled with food and drink?
(a) People swap him for fish.
(b) He loves to shop.
(c) People swap him for lessons.
(d) People swap him for flies and poles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What stuffed animal does Rama have with him in "Jesus Keeps Fishing"?

2. What is Bill Bob's new pastime that Gus discovers when he comes home?

3. Why does Gus go home at the end of the chapter "Philosophizing"?

4. What does Eddy promise Gus when she leaves?

5. What does the river spell?

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