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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bill Bob write a check out on for a candy cigarette from Gus?
(a) His mother's checkbook.
(b) A comic book.
(c) A fishing manual.
(d) A page of the Bible.

2. What is a dreefee?
(a) A Garden Angel.
(b) A person from another world.
(c) Bill Bob's invisible companion.
(d) Bill Bob's security blanket.

3. How did Gus react when Henning was going to whup Bill Bob for writing in the book in "Statistical Improbabilities"?
(a) He begged his father not to "whup" Bill Bob.
(b) He yelled for his mother.
(c) He howled with laughter.
(d) He cried.

4. What is the Rogue River Fishing War all about?
(a) Henning wants to fish alone on their honeymoon.
(b) Carolina tries to teach Henning to worm fish ending in a battle.
(c) Henning tries to teach Carolina to fly fish ending in a battle.
(d) Carolina forbids Henning to fish during their honeymoon.

5. What did Bill Bob spread all over him that Gus had given him in exchange for a check?
(a) Hershey Kisses.
(b) Chocolate sauce.
(c) Hot fudge.
(d) M & Ms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gus do the morning after Alfred's death?

2. When Gus wakes up in "I Reckon" why doesn't he know what time it is?

3. How does Alfred die?

4. Where do Bill Bob and Gus venture to when Bill Bob comes to stay at the cabin?

5. What happens to Gus on the Fourth of July?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Izaak Walton's book about according to Ma? (Describe specific tales from it that she tells)

2. How does Gus differ from the other children?

3. How does Henning wrongfully convince himself that Izaak Walton's book is the bible of fly-fishing?

4. What does Gus see as the problem with Ma's two emotions that Gus describes in full at the end of the chapter "Being Educated & Gittin' Brung Up"?

5. How is Bill Bob different than the rest of the family?

6. How does Gus decide that the great controversy of his parents isn't really about fishing at all?

7. What do statistics mean to the angler?

8. What does the God notebook tell the reader about Gus's beliefs?

9. Why does Zeke tell the story of how Henning and Carolina met, and why does he tell it in the fashion that he does?

10. Why is Gus searching for the answer to death?

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