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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Ma, Henning, and Bill Bob actually doing when Gus comes home?
(a) Playing charades.
(b) Sabotaging each other's fishing gear.
(c) Creating new flies.
(d) Telling jokes.

2. When Gus awakes in "the River Writes" what does he see in nature?
(a) The Garden Queen's robe.
(b) Life.
(c) The answer to his existence.
(d) Death.

3. What method of fishing does Gus teach the old man in the chapter "Dutch"?
(a) The Twinkie method.
(b) The no bait method.
(c) The swim method.
(d) The sandwich method.

4. Why does Gus go home at the end of the chapter "Philosophizing"?
(a) He is lonely.
(b) He misses his brother.
(c) He has not been there in a very long time.
(d) He needs to be around people to think positively about Eddy.

5. What Native American story does Gus tell?
(a) About the flowers and the rain.
(b) About the stars and the earth.
(c) About the ocean and the sun.
(d) About the moon and the sky.

6. How does Gus dupe Dutch?
(a) He invents a species of fish.
(b) Gus tells him that he is famous.
(c) He tells him about a river that does not exist.
(d) He gives him a false name.

7. At the beginning of the "Eddy" chapter what is Gus's plan for himself?
(a) To meet the girl.
(b) To run and hide.
(c) To learn how to speak.
(d) To fall out of the tree and die.

8. How does Pedro plan on waking his family to see the mouse?
(a) He will poke at them.
(b) He will holler.
(c) He ties string to their fingers.
(d) He sets an alarm.

9. What does the man from Arizona who wants to sell Gus's wares say to Gus?
(a) "Loser."
(b) "You're missing the opportunity of a lifetime."
(c) "My loss."
(d) "Maybe next time."

10. Why is one reason Titus did not give for believing that Eddy will find Gus again?
(a) He has her pole.
(b) He was being chivalrous, not creepy.
(c) He told her she was beautiful.
(d) He gave her quotations to match her pole.

11. What is the origin of the creek as Gus finds out.
(a) The replica of the Liberty Bell.
(b) The bank.
(c) The replica of Independence Hall.
(d) Another creek.

12. Why is Bill Bob so fascinated with Pedro's home?
(a) Goats live in it too.
(b) Because so many people live in a small place.
(c) It has only one room.
(d) It is a mansion.

13. What inanimate object does Titus use to explain God to Gus?
(a) Tamanawis, the river.
(b) Nijinsky, the stuffed fish.
(c) Ezra Brooks, the bourbon.
(d) Rodney, the fishing pole.

14. How does Ma view dams?
(a) She hates them for destroying the salmon.
(b) She thinks they are needed.
(c) She feels they are a necessary evil.
(d) She applauds them for what they do.

15. What are Henning, Ma, and Bill Bob pretending to play when Gus comes home?
(a) Duck, Duck, Goose.
(b) Blind man's bluff.
(c) Go fish.
(d) Musical chairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of "The River Writes" how does Gus now view himself in regard to fishing?

2. What doesn't the girl ask Gus?

3. What does the river spell?

4. How does Gus become "famous" in the chapter "Hemingway"?

5. What does Eddy promise Gus when she leaves?

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