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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vice are the main characters doing when the novel opens?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Visiting a place where prostitutes hang out.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Smoking.

2. How do Harris and J. respond to the accusation that they are trespassing?
(a) They take the man's word for it but refuse to move.
(b) They move immediately.
(c) They pretend they are lawyers so that the man leaves them alone.
(d) They beat up the man accusing them.

3. What does J. think is the best way to get a tea kettle to boil?
(a) Put it on a low flame.
(b) Ignore it.
(c) Stare at it.
(d) Put it on a high flame.

4. According to J., what are girls constantly asking while they tow the boat?
(a) If they can have some water.
(b) Why the men felt the need to pack so much stuff.
(c) If they are doing it okay.
(d) If they can stop.

5. What does J. think one should do first while preparing dinner?
(a) Read the recipe.
(b) Preheat the oven.
(c) Put some snacks out.
(d) Put the tea kettle on.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wishes that he hadn't packed his tobacco pouch so soon?

2. Where do the men decide they must bathe during their trip?

3. Who starts teasing the men as they get their luggage ready to go?

4. Why can the men not get their canned items open during the trip?

5. Whom did King Henry VIII reportedly court on Magna Charta Island?

(see the answer key)

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