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

2. How do Aronnax and Conseil finally see Ned Land?
(a) He is in a small life raft.
(b) He is actually standing on the back of the monster.
(c) He is swimming toward them.
(d) He is holding onto the dorsal fin of a porpoise.

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

4. What does Conseil politely ask Aronnax in the water?
(a) if he has any last wishes
(b) if he can cut away his clothes
(c) if he knows how to tread water
(d) if he can see any other survivors

5. What does Nemo say do not exist in his undersea world?
(a) money or banks
(b) women or children
(c) hunger or cold
(d) unjust laws or wars

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Briefly describe Ned Land.

4. What does the public speculate the object is?

5. Who are the two people on board who are not enthusiastic about the search?

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