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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Through what do they pass to get outside the submerged Nautilus?
(a) an airtight room
(b) a holding room full of water
(c) a torpedo tunnel
(d) a shower of warm water

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

3. What do they see off the coast of Ceylon?
(a) the pearl fisheries there
(b) swimming elephants
(c) herds of sea horses
(d) underwater caves

4. After leaving the island, where are they when Aronnax begins to wonder where they are going?
(a) in the straits of gibralter
(b) rounding the Cape of Good Hope
(c) in the Indian Ocean
(d) in the Sargasso Sea

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

6. What does the public speculate the object is?
(a) an island reef, a sea serpent, or a whale of unknown species
(b) a mirage, not real at all
(c) a sea monster like the Loch Ness dragon
(d) something from outer space

7. What is the first view from the surface Aronnax enjoys with Captain Nemo?
(a) the Japanese coastline
(b) the Philippines
(c) the California coastline
(d) the Hawaiian Islands

8. What is the first strange thing Aronnax observes about Nemo's behavior.
(a) He sometimes talks gibberish.
(b) He talks to himself out loud.
(c) He appears to be highly superstitious.
(d) He goes missing for two days.

9. After speaking with Nemo the morning after the underwater walk, how long is Nemo absent?
(a) for a fortnight
(b) for nine hours
(c) for two days
(d) for weeks

10. What does Nemo show Aronnax in his own quarters?
(a) pictures of his family
(b) maps he has made of the ocean floor
(c) books on the seven seas
(d) many useful instruments for ocean travel and exploration

11. What valuable item does Nemo take from a secret place?
(a) a crate of raw diamonds
(b) a chest full of gold ingots
(c) a box of rare black pearls
(d) a statue from Atlantis

12. How is the animal finally killed?
(a) The animal cannot come up for air.
(b) Land stabs it with his knife.
(c) Land harpoons it through the heart.
(d) Conseil hits it with an oar.

13. What evidence does Aronnax give Land to support his theory of a large sea animal?
(a) scraps of flesh removed from some of the damaged ships
(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) a long scientific explanation on water pressure on various size animals at various depths of the sea

14. What does Conseil say keeps them excited about the trip?
(a) no chance to ask questions
(b) no schedules to keep
(c) no time for boredom
(d) no idea where they are

15. What do the three men do on the island?
(a) collect fruits and vegetables to take back with them
(b) wash their clothes in a waterfall
(c) throw rocks at monkeys
(d) lie in the sun on the beach

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Nautilus sink and rise?

2. What does Nemo inform Aronnax?

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

4. What does Ned take Aronnax to view outside the Nautilus one morning?

5. Describe Aronnax's immediate action after he receives the invitation.

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