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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Four, The Line of Light: Hemingway and Dutch.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the conversation between Ma and Pa about at most dinners?
(a) Finances.
(b) The boy's education.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Neighbors.

4. What does Gus do a lot of when he first arrives back home at the cabin?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Reading.

5. What is the one name of the dairy kids that Gus liked?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Porky.
(d) Donald Duck.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hours per year does Gus's ideal schedule entail?

2. How does Gus dupe Dutch?

3. What story does Bigeater tell Gus and Ma?

4. In the beginning of "The River Writes" how does Gus now view himself in regard to fishing?

5. Why doesn't Gus eat his five pounds of oranges?

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