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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do the men want to get to the train station?
2. What usually happens when Harris tries to sing songs at parties?
3. Where does Harris first mention wanting to get out and look at tombstone inscriptions?
4. Who accidentally sits on the butter as the men are packing?
5. What does J. note often happens to the person responsible for pulling the tow line?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does J. note about what people remember about being seasick after they return from a trip?
2. How many girls does J. joke are needed to pull a tow line?
3. Why do the men have such a hard time finding a train to take them to their boat?
4. What does J. admit he thinks when he reads advertisements for new patent medicines?
5. What does George do for a living?
6. In the story J. tells while the men are packing, why do all of the other passengers on the train leave when J. enters with large cheeses?
7. What item does George bring onto the boat when J. and Harris pick him up?
8. What compromise do the men come to about sleeping at inns or camping?
9. Why do the men decide not to pack the oil stove?
10. What does J. report happened to two men he saw on shore once, holding a tow line and looking blankly at each other?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Present an argument discussing why the group's decision to take the train home at the conclusion of the novel DOES or DOES NOT fit with what the reader has come to learn and know about this particular group of characters.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze what Montmorency brings to the text. Discuss three things that would be missing were he not included in the story.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss at least three challenges present for the reader in knowing that the entire story of "Three Men in a Boat" is told from the point of view of J.
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