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Chapter one

1. How did it happen that the three friends discovered they were seriously ill?
2. What did George and Harris complain of?
3. How did J. find out that he was a victim of almost every known malady in pharmacology?
4. What useful prescriptions did J. receive?
5. What cure for liver complaint did J. take in his childhood?
6. What were the reasons for the poor state of health of the three friends?
7. What remedies were proposed?
8. Why did J. strongly object to the idea of a sea trip?
9. Why did George feel sure he would not be seasick?
10. Who suggested that the friends should go up the river?
11. What was the only misgiving that Harris had about the river trip?
12. Why did Montmorency dislike the idea of the river trip?

Chapter two

1. Did the three friends set off immediately or did they make any arrangements before the planned trip?
2. Which were the pleasant and the troublesome sides of camping out?
3. Was Harris’s practical view of things appreciated by his friends? Why?
4. What compromise concerning camping out was worked out eventually? What decision would you take if you were going for a boat trip?
5. What were the first impressions that Montmorency produced on J.? Why?
6. What kind of character did Montmorency prove to be?
7. What crimes did Montmorency commit in the neighbourhood?
8. What was Montmorency’s idea of a real life?
9. Was preparation for the river trip completed after the friends settled the issue of sleeping arrangements? What else was left to discuss?
10. How did the friends decide to spend the rest of the evening?
11. Do you usually plan your trips beforehand and in full detail like J., George and Harris did?
12. What do you call people who develop plans thoroughly and follow them strictly?
13. What do you call people who do not think before doing anything?

Chapter Three

Questions

1. What did the friends intend to discuss on the following evening?
2. How did Harris usually act when there was a need to do anything difficult?
3. Whom did Harris always remind J. of?
4. What happened usually when Uncle Podger undertook to do a job?
5. What errands did Uncle Podger send the members of his household on when he wanted to put up picture?
6. How did it happen that Uncle Podger cut himself?
7. Was Uncle Podger satisfied with the help he received? Why?
8. What musical effect did Uncle Podger produce trying to rich a certain point?
9. What did Aunt Maria ask Uncle Podger to do when Uncle Podger dropped the hammer on somebody’s toes?
10. Who made an awful fuss over the matter?
11. Which is better: to do what you can yourself or to invite a specialist to do a job for you?
12. Do you take any precautions when you are going to put anything up?
13. Was it easy for the friends to select things they were to take with them? Why?
14. What sensible approach to the selection process did George propose?
15. What advice relating to overloading the boat of life with lumber did the author give to his readers? Do you think he followed his advice himself? Did J. and his friends followed the author’s advice?
16. What did George include in his list of things necessary for the intended trip?
17. What was the problem with delights of morning bathing?
18. How did J. manage to persuade George of the need to let Harris have a swim before breakfast?
19. How did George intend to wash the flannel suits that the friends wanted to take with them?
20. Why did J. say that Harris and he were weak enough to follow George’s recommendation?

Chapter Four

Questions

1. Why did the three friends take an awful oath not to take an oilstove with them any more?
2. What food was suggested for the trip?
3. Why was cheese rejected as a travelling companion?
4. Why did Tom’s wife and children have to leave their house?
5. What did J. mean when he said that he would do the packing?
6. What kind of help did J. usually give to his friends?
7. What irritated J. most of all?
8. Did J. succeed in packing? Why?
9. What made J.’s life a misery when he was travelling?
10. What spirit did Harris and George display beginning the packing? What made them show zeal for their work?
11. Were Harris and George more effective in packing than J.?
12. What mysterious thing happened to butter during the packing?
13. How did Montmorency feel about the packing? Did he make any contribution to the fuss?
14. When was the packing over? When were the friends to get up the next morning?
15. Can you stand it when other people sit idly while you are busily working? What do you usually do or say in such a case?
16. Can you sit doing nothing while anyone works hereabout?

CHAPTER FIVE

Questions

1. Who woke the friends up the next morning? What time did they get up?
2. How did J. and Harris save George from wasting his life in mere sleep?
3. Was it easy for the friends to brush teeth and to comb hair on the first morning of their trip? Why?
4. What did George read in the newspaper? Was it encouraging?
5. Why did J. not trust weather forecast any more?
6. Who usually foretells the weather? What prophet enjoys our trust and why?
7. What was the weather like on that particular morning? And what did the newspaper forecast read?
8. How much luggage did the friends take out on to the door step? What kind of luggage was it?
9. Why did Harris and J. feel ashamed of their luggage?
10. Who was the first to come round? What reputation had the boy acquired in the neighbourhood?
11. What suppositions did the gapers make?
12. When did the friends arrive at Waterloo?
13. What did the friends enquire about at the station? Did they receive the required information? Are the answers the friends received typical of modern railway stations?
14. Where did the friends want to go? How did they manage to get there?
15. Was it the right train that the friends went to Kingston by?
16. How did Montmorency feel when the friends were setting forward?

CHAPTER SIX

Questions

1. What Kingston is famous for? Which events from early English history did J. think about?
2. What would have happened if Harris had become Prime Minister?
3. What is the problem of living in a house decorated with carved oak? Would you like to live in an ancient castle?
4. Do you agree with the author who wrote that “each person has what he doesn’t want, and other people have what he does want”?
5. Why did J. think that Stivvings was the most extraordinary lad he had ever met?
6. Is it false or true that Stivvings was a very unlucky boy? Why?
7. Did the questions that the author asked about the years of 2000 and odd receive answers nowadays? Did the author’s suppositions come true?
8. What accident happened when J. forgot that he was steering? Who was to blame for being rude?
9. What kind of character was J.? Prove it.
10. What was the explanation for people crowding in towns and cities that J. found while musing? Do you think he was right in his conclusion? Why?
11. How did it happen that Harris became unpopular in the maze at Hampton Court?
12. Who got the people led by Harris out from the maze eventually?

CHAPTER EIGHT

Questions

1. Why did the friends stop by Kempton Park?
2. What was the gentleman trying to blackmail the friends wearing?
3. What did Harris offer to the gentleman? Did the gentleman accept the offer? Why?
4. What was the proper course to pursue if one became an object of
5. blackmailing under the accusation of trespassing? Did the majority of people follow the advice? Why?
6. Why did the author call the river side landowners selfish?
7. How did J. and Harris feel about notice boards? Who was more blood thirsty?
8. Why did J. spare no effort to persuade Harris not to sing comic songs on the ruins? Did he succeed?
9. Were the requirements that author mentioned in respect to singing a comic song strict? What were they?
10. Could Harris understand that, singing, he was making a fool of himself and was annoying people? Have you ever met people who like to do something but can not do it in a proper way? Did you try to stop them? Did you succeed?
11. Why did the author find it necessary to tell a story about Herr Slossenn Boschen? Which features of human nature does the story highlight?
12. Why did the two students set up that trying situation? Did “the fashionable and highly cultured party” learn the lesson?
13. Why was it worthless to row up the river at Sunbury lock?
14. What town could be seen properly from the stream? What historic names did the author mention in connection with the towns that the friends were passing by? • What is Oatlands Park famous for?
15. What did J. do to prevent Harris from seeing the tomb with a poem on it in Shepperton?
16. How did Harris, J. and Montmorency welcome George?
17. What did George have in his hand? What was it found to be?

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Questions

1. Why did George never get up too early?
2. How did J. wake up Harris? Who suffered?
3. Did the idea of having a swim in the river appeal to the friends in the morning? Why?
4. How did it happen that J. had to reveal heroism and determination?
5. What helped J. to see the funny side of the incident with the shirt?
6. Was Harris good at cooking scrambled eggs? What trouble did he have? How did Harris explain his failure in cooking breakfast?
7. Who did the friends fancy themselves on a sunny day on the river? What inspired them?
8. What dramatic episode from English history does the author describe?
9. Who was Richard that King John recollected in his brooding thoughts?
10. When was Magna Charta signed? What kind of document was it? What did it mean for British people?

CHAPTER TWELVE

Questions

1. Why did the author think that the historic signing of Magna Charta had been very likely to take place on that island?
2. What disadvantages did the author see in living in one house with lovers?
3. How did the author describe the dates of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn?
4. What is Old Windsor famous for?
5. Why was it so difficult for J., Harris and George to find a place at Datchet to put up at during their first trip up the river? What did they look for at first? Where were they ready to spend the night later? Where did they spend the night eventually?
6. Why were Harris and J. ready to pay any price for mustard? Is it typical of human nature to want anything we can not have at the moment?
7. What did the friends take comfort in? What sudden problem did they encounter? What saved George’s life?
8. Why did the friends think Maidenhead was an unpleasant place?
9. What feelings did J. experience while sailing?
10. Who did the friends meet? What happened?
11. What was the reaction of the fishermen when the friends knocked them down?
12. Where did the friends put up at for the night?

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Questions

1. What did Wargrave remind the author of? Why?
2. Which historic event made more credit to Wargrave?
3. Was it worth five shillings to behave oneself for a year?
4. What is Shiplake Church famous for?
5. What kind of a place was the part of the river between Shiplake and Sonning? What was it good for?
6. Did the author like Sonning? Why?
7. Who suggested a fascinating idea to cook Irish stew? What was the recipe of Irish stew?
8. What work were J. and Harris tasked? Did they cope with their task? How many potatoes did they get after they finished their work? Was it enough for Irish stew? What way out was found?
9. What did the friends add to Irish stew? What advantage of Irish stew did George point out?
10. What contribution to the dinner did Montmorency want to make? Was it approved or declined?
11. Was Irish stew a success with the friends? What merits did the friends find in it?
12. What fight did Montmorency have at tea time? Did he win the fight? How did Montmorency regard the kettle since then?
13. What did Harris prefer, a headache or George playing banjo? Why?
14. What effort did George put forth to learn playing banjo at home? Did he receive any support?
15. What hardships did young Jefferson have to overcome to play bagpipes? Why did nobody complain about the insufficiency of the young man’s repertoire?
16. Why was Harris disagreeable after supper? What did the friends ask him to do before going for a walk round Henley? • Did George and J. enjoy their walk? Why? What did they wish for?
17. What time was it when George and J. headed for the boat? What trouble did they find themselves in? What did George suggest?
18. How did George and J. manage to find their boat?
19. Why did George and J. think that Harris was strange? How did Harris explain his behaviour?
20. What could happen to Harris in reality? Who knew the truth?
21. How did Harris spend that night?

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Questions

1. What happened when the friends tried to wash their clothes? How much did the washerwoman charge the friends for that wash? Did the friends attempt to reduce the price? Why?
2. What was special about the neighbourhood of Streatley and Goring?
3. What mistake did the author point out in the Anglers’ Guide to the Thames?
4. Was J. a good fisherman himself? Why could not J. become good at fishing? What could he be good at instead?
5. What art was required to become a good fisherman? Was the ability to tell lies easily enough?
6. What did the owner of an inn up the river have to get used to?
7. What plan did the conscientious young man whom J. knew once develop? What problems did he encounter working his plan out? Why did the Committee of the Thames Anglers’ Association reject the proposal on adoption the plan as a model?
8. Where was Harris on the second day of the friend’s stay at Streatley? Where did J., George and Montmorency go?
9. Who did the friends meet at a little river side inn? What astonishing thing did they see there? What stories did they hear about the trout in an old glass case?
10. What did George do to get a better view of the trout? What happened? What was the trout made of?
11. Why do you think fishermen like to tell lies about their catches? Is that sort of lies disapproved of? Why?

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Questions

1. Why did Montmorency think that he had gone to heaven?
2. What was a general practice of having a river trip for lazy people?
3. Why did energetic people prefer an up stream journey? When did J. feel so?
4. What boat should travellers take? Why?
5. What did hired up river boats look like? What discussion did J. once have with his companions when they hired The Pride of the Thames?
6. How long was The Pride of the Thames in use? What did J. and his companions do to improve the impression that The Pride of the Thames made upon them? Why did not they decline the trip?
7. How many days did the friends travel for?
8. What was the weather like when the friends started from Oxford upon homeward journey? Were they in cheerful mood? Did they want to show their feelings?
9. Who were quite enthusiastic about travelling in the rain? Who did not share the attempts to pretend that they liked the weather?
10. What did the friends do to cheer themselves up? Was the evening of the third day of the trip merry? How did they spend it?
11. What did George request not to talk about? Why?
12. How much money did Harris and J. lose while gambling?
13. What stories did George and Harris tell? What pleasant chat did the friends have afterwards?
14. What had J. thought about the song “Two Lovely Black Eyes” before? What effect did George’s accompaniment produce on Harris, J. and Montmorency?
15. Why did the friends persist in their intention to have a fortnight trip? What temptations did they try to resist?
16. How did it happen that they flew to Pangbourne?
17. What costumes were the friends dressed in during their escape?
18. What did they tell the boatman?
19. What time did the friends reach Paddington? Where did they go?
20. Who were the friends taken for at the Alhambra? Why did they feel that they scored a glorious triumph?
21. Why did the friends enjoy their supper at the restaurant so much? How did they feel themselves at the end of the supper?
22. What did Harris see when he drew aside the curtains and looked out upon the street? What was the conclusion he made up about the friends’ trip?
23. What toast did Harris propose?
24. Who concurred with the toast willingly?
25. Was the trip a success? Do you think the friends would make such a trip once more? Why?

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