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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. Why were the men disappearing?

2. What does the tunnel smell like?

3. What element does Nemo prefer?

4. What native place did Randolph Carter see?

5. Why is that person worse than Hyde?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mycroft offer the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?

2. What situation shocks the group after they have been rescued?

3. What was Griffin sent to do? How did Mina react to this?

4. What does Mina wonder if London can withstand?

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

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

7. Where had the Time Traveler taken Allan and the two Carter's?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the time frame of the novel. What inconsistencies are offered here but that the reader is supposed to accept? How do these kinds of things appear to be commonplace in the novel? How would people react in reality to these things?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the flirtatious nature of Rosa Coote. How would this be unacceptable in a school administrator? Why is this the case? What factors would be considered taboo, if not criminal?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the references to popular culture at the time. What do you think the authors intent was when he referenced these things? Do they add a different dynamic to the story? How or why not?

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