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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of song does the audience think the German man is singing in J.'s story about the joke being played on everyone at a dinner party?
(a) A very funny song.
(b) A ver religious song.
(c) A very mysterious song.
(d) A very sad song.

2. Who remembers that he has forgotten to pack boots?
(a) Harris.
(b) George.
(c) J.
(d) Everyone.

3. What is the most common way for someone to pull the tow line?
(a) While running.
(b) On roller skates.
(c) While walking.
(d) With a special contraption that looks like a tractor.

4. Where does Harris first mention wanting to get out and look at tombstone inscriptions?
(a) London.
(b) The lock cemetery.
(c) On the train ride.
(d) Hampton Church.

5. What do the men decide should be listed when it comes to packing?
(a) Things they might forget.
(b) Thing they won't be embarrassed to be caught with.
(c) Everything and anything they can think of.
(d) Only the things they cannot do without.

6. What do the men check at breakfast on the day of their departure?
(a) Their bank accounts.
(b) Their weight.
(c) The weather.
(d) The newspaper for news on their trip.

7. What does J. think tow lines have an uncanny ability to do?
(a) Rip.
(b) Change color depending on the time of day.
(c) Get longer and longer.
(d) Get tangled.

8. What country are the three main characters in "Three Men in a Boat" from?
(a) England.
(b) America.
(c) South Africa.
(d) India.

9. What towns are Harris and J. rowing by as J. tries to keep Harris from stopping to read tomb inscriptions?
(a) Boston and Newport.
(b) Newport and Bridgeport.
(c) Burlington and Burlingame.
(d) Halliford and Shepperton.

10. Whose relative is Uncle Podger?
(a) J.'s.
(b) Harris's.
(c) George's.
(d) The narrator's.

11. Where do the men decide they will wash their clothes?
(a) At a private house.
(b) In the river.
(c) At a laundromat.
(d) They bring enough clothes so they don't have to wash any.

12. Where do Harris and J. stop when they are informed they are trespassing?
(a) Kempton Park.
(b) Central Park.
(c) Hemmingway Park.
(d) Tower of Big Ben.

13. What is the first act of work which Harris and J. make George do when he finally gets on the boat?
(a) Clean the bathrooms.
(b) Cook breakfast.
(c) Pull the tow line.
(d) Cook lunch.

14. Which character has already been lost in the hedge maze along the river?
(a) J.
(b) The boat captain.
(c) Harris.
(d) George.

15. Where do the men make a pile of everything they want to pack?
(a) In the garage.
(b) In the town square.
(c) In the center of the room.
(d) In the backyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the men want to get to the train station?

2. What is Harris's full name?

3. What kind of singer does Harris imagine himself to be?

4. What vice are the main characters doing when the novel opens?

5. What example is given of a simple project Uncle Podger would undertake?

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