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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the three prisoners after the incident with the telescope?
(a) They are threatened with being thrown overboard.
(b) They are forbidden to go to the platform ever again.
(c) They are drugged and fall asleep.
(d) They are locked in Aronnax's room for the night.

2. As they enter the Red Sea, what does Aronnax find?
(a) the lost continent of Atlantis
(b) the lost Red Sea scrolls
(c) the lost tablets of stone
(d) the lost city of Mocha

3. What animal does Ned harpoon along the Arabian coast?
(a) a large sea otter
(b) a dugong
(c) a crocodile
(d) an oryx

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the large bird staggering around after eating the nutmeg?

2. What makes Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land very happy?

3. What famous historical figure does Nemo discuss with Aronnax?

4. Briefly describe Ned Land.

5. Taken aboard the mysterious craft, who does Aronnax think they have been saved by?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the situation after the three men eat and fall asleep.

2. How does Captain Nemo explain the electricity on the Nautilus?

3. Relate Aronnax's encounter with the strange man.

4. From the small submarine, tell what Aronnax observes in an underwater cemetery.

5. Explain Captain Nemo's attitude toward the men on their first meeting.

6. What does the captain of the Monroe whaling boat request of Captain Farragut?

7. How is the pearl seen differently by different people?

8. What is Nemo's response to Aronnax's idea they cannot reach the Mediterranean by the next day?

9. How are Aronnax and Conseil saved from drowning after falling off the Abraham Lincoln?

10. Describe how the three men are treated when they first come on board the Nautilus.

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