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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two, The Undoing of Scientific Angler: I Reckon and Anamnesis.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What allusion is made concerning H2O's need to whip his adversary to death with his fly-wand in "Statistical Improbabilities"?
(a) Romeo and Tybalt.
(b) Guinevere and Lancelot.
(c) Beowulf and Grendel.
(d) Isolde and Tristan.

3. What confused Ma about the famous book "The Complete Angler" that Henning gave her to read?
(a) The language.
(b) The ideas.
(c) The reason why Henning owned it.
(d) The s's looked like f's.

4. What does Gus deem as the crux of Izaak Walton's book?
(a) Fishing for fun.
(b) Fishing for a living.
(c) God.
(d) Religion.

5. What is the L.Q.B.S.?
(a) Lots of Questions Bill Bob Seeks.
(b) A system Ma creates for the family to balance their lives.
(c) Long Quests Bound for Somewhere.
(d) A system Gus creates to balance his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare a fish's death?

2. How does Carolina make GC feel better about her grandson fishing on Sundays?

3. What did Bill Bob spread all over him that Gus had given him in exchange for a check?

4. What does Maggie try to get Gus to do?

5. Why does Zeke tell the story of Carolina and Henning's meeting?

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