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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. Briefly describe Ned Land.
(a) He is a Canadian scientist who disbelieves the whole thing.
(b) He is Conseil's cousin conscripted for the trip.
(c) He is a Frenchman only on board to translate for Aronnax.
(d) Land is a Canadian who speaks French with Aronnax. He has been a seaman all his life and has many interesting tales about his adventures.
2. Why does Aronnax rule out the possibility of an individual creating the monster?
(a) It cannot be something mechanical.
(b) One individual could not control something that large.
(c) There is no precedent for such a machine.
(d) The thing would cost too much for a private party to make.
3. Where was the Nautilus assembled?
(a) workshops on desert islands in the ocean
(b) a warehouse in the south of France
(c) in the Bermuda Triangle
(d) off the coast of Africa
4. Describe Aronnax's immediate action after he receives the invitation.
(a) He telegraphs France to say he will be staying longer.
(b) The first thing he does is to contact his trusted servant of ten years, Conseil, a Flemish boy age thirty.
(c) He writes out his last will and testament.
(d) He goes to the library to read up on sea monsters.
5. What evidence does Aronnax give Land to support his theory of a large sea animal?
(a) and estimate of how it would be too expensive to make a machine like that
(b) some fuzzy photos taken by people who have spotted it
(c) scraps of flesh removed from some of the damaged ships
(d) a long scientific explanation on water pressure on various size animals at various depths of the sea
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the public speculate the object is?
2. What is professor Aronnax's conclusion about what the sightings are?
3. What does Conseil politely ask Aronnax in the water?
4. After falling from the Abraham Lincoln, what is Aronnax's condition?
5. What is the offer Captain Farragut makes as they search for the monster?
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