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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, The Compleat Angler: The Great Izaak Walton Conversy: the Parental Version and The Great Izaak Walton Controversy: My Own Rendition.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gus equate fly-fishing to for Henning in "The Parental Version"?
(a) Religion.
(b) Eating.
(c) A good book.
(d) Champagne.

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

3. What does Ma point out to Henning about the book written by Izaak Walton?
(a) The fishermen know nothing about fishing.
(b) The fishermen are alcoholics.
(c) The fishermen are first destructive to animals and then they drink.
(d) The fishermen don't fish.

4. What allusion does Gus make to his reading of The Compleat Angler as many times as he did?
(a) Mozart to sheet music.
(b) A historian to world history.
(c) Moses to the commandments.
(d) An English teacher to Shakespeare.

5. To what does the narrator compare a fish's death?
(a) Christmas.
(b) The death of a loved one.
(c) An infant's birth.
(d) A Baptismal ceremony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gus deem as the crux of Izaak Walton's book?

2. What does Gus state about his fishing memory?

3. What happens between Carolina and Henning the night they first meet?

4. What allusion is made concerning H2O's need to whip his adversary to death with his fly-wand in "Statistical Improbabilities"?

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

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