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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 17 | Part 1 Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Aronnax and Conseil finally see Ned Land?
(a) He is in a small life raft.
(b) He is actually standing on the back of the monster.
(c) He is holding onto the dorsal fin of a porpoise.
(d) He is swimming toward them.

2. When they get tired underwater, what do they do?
(a) Stop and sit on giant oyster shells.
(b) They take a long nap.
(c) Breathe in extra oxygen.
(d) Return immediately to the Nautilus.

3. What nationalities does Aronnax guess the captors to be?
(a) Norwegian, Brazilian, or Russian
(b) African, Asian, or Polynesian
(c) Peruvian, Mexican, or Argentinian
(d) Spanish, Arabian, or Indian

4. What evidence does Aronnax give Land to support his theory of a large sea animal?
(a) a long scientific explanation on water pressure on various size animals at various depths of the sea
(b) some fuzzy photos taken by people who have spotted it
(c) and estimate of how it would be too expensive to make a machine like that
(d) scraps of flesh removed from some of the damaged ships

5. What does Nemo say do not exist in his undersea world?
(a) money or banks
(b) women or children
(c) hunger or cold
(d) unjust laws or wars

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Nautilus sink and rise?

2. What is described as the most interesting river in the sea?

3. What is the shape of the Nautilus?

4. How does Land react to the steward who comes into the room after he wakes up?

5. What is the first view from the surface Aronnax enjoys with Captain Nemo?

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