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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 13 | Part 1 Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described as the most interesting river in the sea?
(a) the Gulf Stream
(b) the Arabian Tunnel
(c) the River Styx
(d) the Sargasso Stream

2. How does Aronnax find the taste of seaweed cigars?
(a) to be delightful
(b) to be disgusting
(c) to be tasteless
(d) to be like smoking cabbage

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

4. What is Aronnax's assigned room like?
(a) a hastily converted pantry
(b) a large room with a bed, dressing table and other furniture
(c) a stark room just barely large enough for a bed
(d) a room with a view of the ocean

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Aronnax and Conseil finally see Ned Land?

2. In what year do reports start circulating about the strange creature in the ocean?

3. What does Aronnax conclude the minute he gets his invitation from Hobson?

4. What happens when Ned Land gets close enough to throw his harpoon?

5. After falling from the Abraham Lincoln, what is Aronnax's condition?

(see the answer key)

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