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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Four, The Line of Light: Nick the Convert and The Trek.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Gus begin earning an income at the end of the chapter "Hemingway"?
(a) He sells fish.
(b) He sells fishing tips.
(c) He sells fishing lessons.
(d) He sells flies and rods.

4. Why is Gus bothered by the old man that he meets at Shat Creek in the chapter "Dutch"?
(a) The old man is stupid.
(b) The old man scares the fish away.
(c) The old man knows more about fish than Gus does.
(d) The old man won't stop talking.

5. How does Gus become "famous" in the chapter "Hemingway"?
(a) He catches a 10 pound fish with the dairy kids.
(b) He saves a man drowning in the river.
(c) He gets in a car crash while hitching back home and saves the driver.
(d) He saves one of the dairy kids from a hunting accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Henning, Ma, and Bill Bob pretending to play when Gus comes home?

2. What philosophical question keeps running through Gus's mind in "I Reckon"?

3. Why does Ma write to Gus after she reads the interview?

4. How did Gus react when Henning was going to whup Bill Bob for writing in the book in "Statistical Improbabilities"?

5. What happened with the Doberman and Ma?

(see the answer key)

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