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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) In laughter.
(b) Gus storms out.
(c) Ma fires her shotgun.
(d) Henning smacks Gus.

2. How does Gus believe that he becomes a fishing prodigy?
(a) He learned it in the womb.
(b) His parents taught him as a young boy.
(c) He knew how to swim in the womb.
(d) Both of his parents are skilled fishermen.

3. What did Gus give himself as a graduation present?
(a) A year's lease on a fishing cabin.
(b) A new Buick.
(c) All new fishing gear.
(d) An apartment to live in at college.

4. How is Gus considered by others in the public school system as a young boy?
(a) A celebrity.
(b) A mild-mannered freak.
(c) A hero.
(d) An enigma.

5. What does Gus do about his depression?
(a) He fishes less and socializes more.
(b) He visits home.
(c) He goes to see a psychiatrist.
(d) He cuts himself off from all humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henning do about the Izaak Walton book to prove to Ma that her opinion of it is wrong?

2. How does Gus feel after he puts Bill Bob on the bus to go home?

3. How did the three third graders get sick in "Being Educated and Gittin' Brung UP"?

4. Who/what is Nijinsky as mentioned in Chapter 1?

5. What does Gus do for the first time in a long while with Bill Bob at the cabin?

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