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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Four, The Line of Light: The Raven and the Why, and Googler and Mangler.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What inanimate object does Titus use to explain God to Gus?
(a) Ezra Brooks, the bourbon.
(b) Nijinsky, the stuffed fish.
(c) Rodney, the fishing pole.
(d) Tamanawis, the river.

2. Who are Googler and Mangler?
(a) Invisible friends of Arjuna and Hemingway.
(b) Names of two fish Hemingway caught.
(c) New friends of the dairy farm kids.
(d) Spirits.

3. 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 says Gus put it there.
(c) He states the "Fishing Dutchman" put it there.
(d) He claims God put it there.

4. What does Gus do with his copy of Izaak Walton's book?
(a) He throws it out.
(b) He puts it on his father's shelf to gather cobwebs.
(c) He gives it to his father telling him it is nonsense.
(d) He burns it.

5. What does Titus feed Gus on the morning after he spends the night in Portland?
(a) Oatmeal.
(b) Bacon and eggs.
(c) Dry cereal.
(d) Steak and eggs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gus wonder about his father?

2. What is Izaak Walton?

3. What does Attar call God as explained by Titus to Gus?

4. How does Pedro plan on waking his family to see the mouse?

5. What does Gus do at the beginning of "Anamnesis" to make him feel better?

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