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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Gus voted in his senior year in high school?
(a) Mr. Most-Out-Of-It.
(b) Mr. Fly.
(c) Mr. Bait.
(d) Mr. Fisherman.

2. How does Gus get back home?
(a) Maggie takes him.
(b) The police bring him home.
(c) He drives himself.
(d) Titus drives him.

3. How does the editor say that the carp got into the parking lot "lake" one spring?
(a) He states the "Fishing Dutchman" put it there.
(b) He says Gus put it there.
(c) He says it half swam, half crawled from a sewer.
(d) He claims God put it there.

4. It is said that fishermen are such statisticians that even the fish were counted on what occasion?
(a) When a boat is lost at sea.
(b) With Jesus when he feeds the masses.
(c) After a shipwreck.
(d) After a severe storm.

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

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

7. What philosophical question keeps running through Gus's mind in "I Reckon"?
(a) How did life begin?
(b) How many fish are in the ocean?
(c) What is death?
(d) How many fish can one catch in a day?

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

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

10. What is different about Bill Bob's bicycle?
(a) He has placed a large horn on the handlebars.
(b) He has equipped it with multiple objects.
(c) He painted it various colors.
(d) He made the seat very high.

11. When Gus wakes up in "I Reckon" why doesn't he know what time it is?
(a) His head hurts so much that he can't read his watch.
(b) His watch is missing.
(c) The fog is so thick, that he can't tell if it is day or night.
(d) He does not know how long he slept.

12. What is Henning's issue with his son being called Bill Bob?
(a) No senator, poet, or sea captain ever had such a name.
(b) It sounds like a horse's name.
(c) It is a cowpoke name.
(d) Bill was the name of a man Henning did not like.

13. How many rooms are in the cabin that Gus leases?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

14. What does Bill Bob write a check out on for a candy cigarette from Gus?
(a) A page of the Bible.
(b) A fishing manual.
(c) His mother's checkbook.
(d) A comic book.

15. What does Gus equate fly-fishing to for Henning in "The Parental Version"?
(a) Religion.
(b) Champagne.
(c) Eating.
(d) A good book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stops Gus from fishing on the day after Alfred dies?

2. What happens in the barroom during the honeymoon of Henning and Carolina?

3. What is Bill Bob playing with when Gus finds him behind the cabin?

4. What happens to Gus on the Fourth of July?

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

(see the answer keys)

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