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

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

3. Why is the frigate unable to catch the monster?
(a) It makes sharper turns than the ship can make.
(b) It swims agilely at a speed of perhaps thirty miles per hour.
(c) It submerges often and comes up in back of the ship.
(d) It keeps going around in circles.

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

5. What is professor Aronnax's conclusion about what the sightings are?
(a) a marine animal of enormous power
(b) an optical illusion
(c) a man-made object
(d) a volcanic eruption under the sea

Short Answer Questions

1. Briefly describe Ned Land.

2. What does Conseil believe about the outcome of the trip?

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

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

5. Describe Aronnax's immediate action after he receives the invitation.

(see the answer key)

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