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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stops Gus from fishing on the day after Alfred dies?

2. How does Carolina make GC feel better about her grandson fishing on Sundays?

3. What does Gus do about his depression?

4. What kind of a temperament does Bill Bob have?

5. How does the huge fight at dinner in "Voiding my Rheum" culminate?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In what ways does Ma use her shotgun and what does this say about her and the way she raises her children?

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

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

6. 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"?

7. What do statistics mean to the angler?

8. What are Ma's and Henning's philosophies of death?

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

10. How does Gus plan his life to maximize his fishing time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Bill Bob an extraordinary young boy? How does he affect Gus?

Essay Topic 2

Address the huge fight at the dinner before Gus leaves to the fishing cabin. What is revealed about his feelings towards his mother and father? What does his eruption say about the way he deals with his feelings? What are their reactions? What do their reactions say about their parenting?

Essay Topic 3

What is "The Compleat Angler" and what does in mean to the Orviston family?

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