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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 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 monster dives almost taking the ship down with it.
(d) The harpoon strikes on a hard surface.

2. Tell what Ned Land and Captain Farragut decide to do to get the monster.
(a) to put out in a small boat
(b) to drop raw meat into the ocean
(c) to try to ram it with the bow of the frigate
(d) to go for the monster with harpoons from the frigate itself

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

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

5. Why does Aronnax rule out the possibility of an individual creating the monster?
(a) There is no precedent for such a machine.
(b) The thing would cost too much for a private party to make.
(c) One individual could not control something that large.
(d) It cannot be something mechanical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Conseil politely ask Aronnax in the water?

2. What does Aronnax insist they thought they were hunting and attacking?

3. What nationalities does Aronnax guess the captors to be?

4. Why is the frigate unable to catch 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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