Test: Chapter - 5, Three Men in a Boat - Class 9 MCQ

The narrator and Harris were woken up by Mrs Poppets.

George took the responsibility of waking them up at 6.30 in the morning but was still asleep.

Harris landed him one with a slipper.

The Story states that they calmed the dogs with an umbrella.

The writer thought that the ‘weather forecast’ was a fraud and was generally wrong.

The friends carted out their luggage on to the doorstep and attracted a small crowd.

They gave a bribe to the engine driver and begged him to reach Kingston by 11.5, and they reached Kingston by the London and South-Western Railway.

With Harris at the sculls, and the writer at the tiller-lines, and Montmorency in the prow, they shot out on to the waters.

The writer recalls a day that was ruined by the weather forecast "Heavy showers with thunderstorms may be expected," which made them cancel their plan to go out for a picnic. However, it did not rain at all. This incident made the writer believe that the weather forecast was a fraud and generally wrong. Therefore, the friends were worried that they might miss their picnic plan due to the unreliable weather forecast.

Biggs' boy was the first to arrive and stopped in front of their luggage, followed by another boy and the young gentleman from the boot-shop. Therefore, option a) is the correct answer.