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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, The Compleat Angler: Excerpts from the God-notebook and Being Educated and Gittin Brung Up.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gus wonder about his father?
(a) If he loves anyone.
(b) If he loves Ma.
(c) If he loves Gus.
(d) If he loves Bill Bob.

2. What kind of a temperament does Bill Bob have?
(a) He is almost too calm.
(b) He is wild.
(c) He is quiet but fun.
(d) He is often excited and surprised.

3. What happened with the Doberman and Ma?
(a) Ma aimed the shotgun at the owner after it attacked Gus.
(b) It attacked Gus, so she shot it.
(c) It attacked Bill Bob, so she beat it with a bat.
(d) Having escaped from its yard, Ma tamed it.

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

5. What does Henning do to his copy of Izaak Walton's book?
(a) He puts it up on a high shelf.
(b) He puts it on Ma's nightstand, so she will always see it.
(c) He burns it.
(d) He throws it into the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is said that fishermen are such statisticians that even the fish were counted on what occasion?

2. What does Gus decide about God by writing in his notebook?

3. How is Gus considered by others in the public school system as a young boy?

4. What does Gus state about his fishing memory?

5. How does the editor say that the carp got into the parking lot "lake" one spring?

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