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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two, The Undoing of a Scientific Angler: Where I Lived and What I Lived for and Water on the Brain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the huge fight at dinner in "Voiding my Rheum" culminate?
(a) Ma fires her shotgun.
(b) Gus storms out.
(c) In laughter.
(d) Henning smacks Gus.

2. Where do Bill Bob and Gus venture to when Bill Bob comes to stay at the cabin?
(a) Up a 500 foot ridge.
(b) To the farm.
(c) To another river.
(d) To town.

3. What does Ma say happens on the otter hunt?
(a) The men spare the mother because of the babies.
(b) The men hunt only males.
(c) The men slaughter the mother and the babies.
(d) The men save the babies after the mother is killed.

4. What word does Bill Bob first say to Gus?
(a) Mama.
(b) Gus.
(c) Potato chip.
(d) Dada.

5. What is the conversation between Ma and Pa about at most dinners?
(a) The boy's education.
(b) Neighbors.
(c) Finances.
(d) Fishing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were Gus's closest neighbors at the cabin?

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

3. What allusion does Gus make to his reading of The Compleat Angler as many times as he did?

4. How many rooms are in the cabin that Gus leases?

5. What does Gus equate fly-fishing to for Henning in "The Parental Version"?

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