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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 21 | Part 1 Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Nemo inform Aronnax?
(a) It is possible to stay submerged for a month.
(b) It is possible to breathe sea water.
(c) It is possible to walk underwater.
(d) It is possible to talk underwater.

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

4. 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) a long scientific explanation on water pressure on various size animals at various depths of the sea
(c) some fuzzy photos taken by people who have spotted it
(d) scraps of flesh removed from some of the damaged ships

5. What artifact does Nemo show Aronnax that he had recovered from the sea?
(a) a box of Byzantine jewelry
(b) a statue of the virgin Mary
(c) a tin box with papers of Commander La Perouse
(d) a marble inscription from Atlantis

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Aronnax happen to be in the right place at the right time to be invited to join the hunt?

3. What does Aronnax fear about the heavy air in the room where they are?

4. What does Conseil say keeps them excited about the trip?

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

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