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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hours is Fogg on board the ship to Liverpool before assuming the role of captain?

2. How many days after returning home are Fogg and Aouda married?

3. Who disappears when the train comes to a complete stop?

4. What interrupts Fogg and Colonel Proctor's attempt to handle their differences on the train across America?

5. Why does the train stop a second time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Much to the readers surprise, at the end of Chapter 36, Fogg enters the Reform Club salon, winning the wager. How was this possible?

2. How does the relationship between Passepartout and Fix change in America?

3. What does the culmination of the relationship between Aouda and Fogg represent?

4. How does Fogg react when he is released from holding in Liverpool for the crime he did not commit? What happens when he is released?

5. What problems do Fogg's actions aboard the Henrietta cause? What is Fogg's solution?

6. What does Passepartout share with Fogg and Aouda about his experience in the tavern? How does Fogg respond to Passepartout's story?

7. What happens to Fogg as soon as he is back on British soil in Liverpool? How does he feel about this challenge?

8. Why is the train crossing America stopped a second time? What decision is made? What does this mean for Fogg?

9. Describe the rest of Fogg's journey across America in Chapter 31. Where do he and his traveling party go? What happens when they reach New York?

10. What happens within the first twelve hours Fogg and his traveling party are on board the Henrietta? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which characters does Jules Verne use to contrast Phileas Fogg's characteristics? What characteristics do those characters have that Fogg does not?

Essay Topic 2

Jules Verne uses a lot of symbolism in the story to create characters and compare situations between characters to larger issues. During the trip around the world, what does the developing relationship between Fogg and Aouda symbolize? What broader relationship does it parallel?

Essay Topic 3

Fix immediately arrests Fogg as soon as he is back on British soil. What does this quick action mean for Fogg and Fix? What attributes are being highlighted in Fix, and in British detectives overall?

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