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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 9 | Part 1 Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Aronnax fear about the heavy air in the room where they are?
(a) The room is filling up with water.
(b) The oxygen in the room has been depleted.
(c) The walls are closing in.
(d) The people are trying to kill them.

3. What happens when Ned Land gets close enough to throw his harpoon?
(a) The monster throws it back.
(b) Land misses and the monster disappears.
(c) The harpoon strikes on a hard surface.
(d) The monster dives almost taking the ship down with it.

4. What does Aronnax conclude the minute he gets his invitation from Hobson?
(a) Aronnax decides his purpose in life must be to hunt down this monster.
(b) He concludes that it will be too dangerous.
(c) He believes that nothing will be gained by the expedition.
(d) He thinks the invitation is a hoax.

5. How does Aronnax happen to be in the right place at the right time to be invited to join the hunt?
(a) Aronnax is in New York City at the height of the controversy about the sea monster.
(b) He is the first scientist to have a sighting of the monster.
(c) He is a survivor of the sunken Scotia.
(d) He is lecturing at the University of Florida.

Short Answer Questions

1. After falling from the Abraham Lincoln, what is Aronnax's condition?

2. How does Land react to the steward who comes into the room after he wakes up?

3. What is professor Aronnax's conclusion about what the sightings are?

4. Tell what Ned Land and Captain Farragut decide to do to get the monster.

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

(see the answer key)

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