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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. What was Quatermain's fear?

2. What is the last thing that Nemo says to the people while he shoots his gun?

3. Who was on the balloon when the group came back?

4. Why were the men disappearing?

5. What difference causes the balloon to drop?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Quatermain fascinated with and what is Murray's reaction?

2. How did Quatermain know from what period the "Time Traveler" originated?

3. What was so interesting about the crystal the group had landed on?

4. What does Mina wonder if London can withstand?

5. What is it that Nemo and Quatermain talk about on the deck of the Nautilus?

6. What was Murray referring to when she says that the 'coloring is very similar'?

7. What plan is hatched to escape the tunnel?

8. What was the lie that the League was told and what was the truth?

9. What happened when the Morlock fell away from Quatermain while the time machine was in motion?

10. For what reason did all good sense inform Lady Ragnall that she should not expect Allan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the section "Allan and the Sundered Veil." What does that refer to? Does it add anything to the novel? What exactly and why?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Quatermain's addiction to opiate and sense dulling narcotics. How does it get him into trouble? How does he bring it under control and why? Are all substances as easy to control? How or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the "Correctional Academy for Wayward Gentlewomen." Would this be a proper place for a young Victorian era woman to be sent to? Why or why not? What factors make it a place that is not well suited for learning? What is it likely that the girls are actually learning there?

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