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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 9 | Part 1 Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is professor Aronnax's conclusion about what the sightings are?
(a) an optical illusion
(b) a man-made object
(c) a marine animal of enormous power
(d) a volcanic eruption under the sea

2. What does Aronnax insist they thought they were hunting and attacking?
(a) a pod of whales they needed for food
(b) a sea creature with rabies
(c) a warship from China
(d) a sea monster that has been wrecking ships

3. Why is the frigate unable to catch the monster?
(a) It keeps going around in circles.
(b) It makes sharper turns than the ship can make.
(c) It swims agilely at a speed of perhaps thirty miles per hour.
(d) It submerges often and comes up in back of the ship.

4. What does the captain decide to do after months at sea and no sighting of the monster?
(a) Farragut decides to retrace their path to see if they missed anything.
(b) The captain decides to try the waters of the antarctic.
(c) Captain Farragut announces they will search only three more days.
(d) The captain decides to do a stopover in Rio, Brazil.

5. In what year do reports start circulating about the strange creature in the ocean?
(a) 1866
(b) 1792
(c) 1900
(d) 1850

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Aronnax have trouble falling asleep after the rescue?

3. How long do Conseil and Ned think they have been asleep when they finally wake up?

4. How many shipwrecks occurred that year?

5. What does Nemo say do not exist in his undersea world?

(see the answer key)

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