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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 Gus say of devoted people in "Excerpts from the God-notebook"?
(a) That they usually keep to themselves.
(b) That they are found to be nervous, belligerent people.
(c) That they are warm and friendly people.
(d) That they are pushy, one-sided people.

2. What does Bill Bob tell Gus about Garden Angels?
(a) They grow old as humans do.
(b) They are our human twins that are born when we die.
(c) They never die.
(d) They are spirits that watch over humans.

3. What book does Gus consider the most explosive in existence?
(a) Darwin's Theory.
(b) The Big Bang vs. Evolution.
(c) Mythology.
(d) The Holy Bible.

4. How do Zeke's two installments of the story differ?
(a) He is drunk for the second installment.
(b) He changes the dialect.
(c) He reinvents the first installment in the second.
(d) He becomes agitated for the second installment.

5. What does Henning tell Gus will make them part of eternity?
(a) Love.
(b) Fishing as it will last forever.
(c) Their energy.
(d) Being close to the water as it will be forever.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Gus in "The Ideal Schedule", what makes fishing even better?

2. What is ironic about the meeting of Carolina and Henning?

3. What word does Bill Bob first say to Gus?

4. What does the reader learn about Bill Bob in "Anamnesis" that wasn't known before?

5. Why does Gus cry after catching Garbage Gut?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gus react during the argument at dinner when he realizes that his parents only care about their own argument and not the story he is telling?

2. How do Titus and Gus connect?

3. What happens with Gus and Abe? How does Gus speak to Abe? Why does he speak to Abe in this fashion?

4. What is Carolina's philosophy about the human fetus?

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

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

7. Is the argument in "Voiding My Rheum" healing or destructive? Defend your answer.

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

9. How does Gus believe that he became a fishing prodigy?

10. Explain Bill Bob's concept of life and death.

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