1. Briefly describe Ned Land.
(a) He is a Canadian scientist who disbelieves the whole thing.
(b) He is Conseil's cousin conscripted for the trip.
(c) Land is a Canadian who speaks French with Aronnax. He has been a seaman all his life and has many interesting tales about his adventures.
(d) He is a Frenchman only on board to translate for Aronnax.

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

3. What evidence does Aronnax give Land to support his theory of a large sea animal?
(a) some fuzzy photos taken by people who have spotted it
(b) and estimate of how it would be too expensive to make a machine like that
(c) scraps of flesh removed from some of the damaged ships
(d) a long scientific explanation on water pressure on various size animals at various depths of the sea

4. What does Aronnax insist they thought they were hunting and attacking?
(a) a warship from China
(b) a sea monster that has been wrecking ships
(c) a sea creature with rabies
(d) a pod of whales they needed for food

5. What does the captain decide to do after months at sea and no sighting of the monster?
(a) The captain decides to do a stopover in Rio, Brazil.
(b) The captain decides to try the waters of the antarctic.
(c) Captain Farragut announces they will search only three more days.
(d) Farragut decides to retrace their path to see if they missed anything.