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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 does Gus deem as the crux of Izaak Walton's book?
(a) Religion.
(b) Fishing for a living.
(c) God.
(d) Fishing for fun.

2. What is Izaak Walton?
(a) A writer about fly-fishing.
(b) A friend of Henning's.
(c) A famous fisherman.
(d) An expert on bait fishing.

3. What is Henning's issue with his son being called Bill Bob?
(a) It sounds like a horse's name.
(b) Bill was the name of a man Henning did not like.
(c) It is a cowpoke name.
(d) No senator, poet, or sea captain ever had such a name.

4. What does Ma retell about the mule and the pike?
(a) The men save the mule from the pike that jumps up to bite the mule's lip.
(b) The pike jumps up and bite the mule's lip while the men laugh.
(c) The mule attempts to catch the jumping pike which makes the men laugh.
(d) The pike jumps up and scares the mule who runs into the river.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gus do to the boy that they call Barf-breath?

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

3. What is the Rogue River Fishing War all about?

4. How does Henning earn his living?

5. What does Henning do to his copy of Izaak Walton's book?

(see the answer key)

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