Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

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1. In what year do reports start circulating about the strange creature in the ocean?

1866

2. What does the public speculate the object is?

an island reef, a sea serpent, or a whale of unknown species

3. How many shipwrecks occurred that year?

over 3,000

4. What is professor Aronnax's conclusion about what the sightings are?

a marine animal of enormous power

5. Why does Aronnax rule out the possibility of an individual creating the monster?

The thing would cost too much for a private party to make.

6. How does Aronnax happen to be in the right place at the right time to be invited to join the hunt?

Aronnax is in New York City at the height of the controversy about the sea monster.

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