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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, The Compleat Angler: The Ideal Schedule and Voiding My Rheum.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Gus give himself as a graduation present?
(a) A new Buick.
(b) All new fishing gear.
(c) An apartment to live in at college.
(d) A year's lease on a fishing cabin.

3. How does the editor say that the carp got into the parking lot "lake" one spring?
(a) He claims God put it there.
(b) He says Gus put it there.
(c) He states the "Fishing Dutchman" put it there.
(d) He says it half swam, half crawled from a sewer.

4. Why did Gnat name the large mouthed bass "Garbage Gut"?
(a) The kids fed the bass real garbage like paper plates and plastic forks.
(b) Eating this bass would make your gut feel like garbage.
(c) Because the bass waited for the picnickers to throw their trash into the river.
(d) Large mouthed bass taste like garbage.

5. What kind of a dog replaced the Doberman for the surgeon?
(a) A Chihuahua.
(b) Another Doberman.
(c) A Beagle.
(d) A Greyhound.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Gus believe that he becomes a fishing prodigy?

3. How did Gus react when Henning was going to whup Bill Bob for writing in the book in "Statistical Improbabilities"?

4. What is Izaak Walton?

5. Why does Gus cry after catching Garbage Gut?

(see the answer key)

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