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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. How long do Conseil and Ned think they have been asleep when they finally wake up?
(a) for a week
(b) for a few minutes
(c) for one full day
(d) for a few hours

2. 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 lecturing at the University of Florida.
(c) He is a survivor of the sunken Scotia.
(d) He is the first scientist to have a sighting of the monster.

3. After falling from the Abraham Lincoln, what is Aronnax's condition?
(a) holding onto a life preserver
(b) standing on the back of the monster
(c) struggling to remove his clothes
(d) nearly freezing and about to drown

4. In what year do reports start circulating about the strange creature in the ocean?
(a) 1850
(b) 1866
(c) 1900
(d) 1792

5. Describe Aronnax's immediate action after he receives the invitation.
(a) The first thing he does is to contact his trusted servant of ten years, Conseil, a Flemish boy age thirty.
(b) He goes to the library to read up on sea monsters.
(c) He writes out his last will and testament.
(d) He telegraphs France to say he will be staying longer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What evidence does Aronnax give Land to support his theory of a large sea animal?

2. How many shipwrecks occurred that year?

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

4. What does Nemo say do not exist in his undersea world?

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

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