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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 1 | Part 2 Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Aronnax happen to be in the right place at the right time to be invited to join the hunt?
(a) He is the first scientist to have a sighting of the monster.
(b) Aronnax is in New York City at the height of the controversy about the sea monster.
(c) He is a survivor of the sunken Scotia.
(d) He is lecturing at the University of Florida.

3. After falling from the Abraham Lincoln, what is Aronnax's condition?
(a) nearly freezing and about to drown
(b) standing on the back of the monster
(c) struggling to remove his clothes
(d) holding onto a life preserver

4. What does Nemo point out to Aronnax?
(a) large sharks circling overhead
(b) the entrance to the forest of Crespo
(c) giant oyster shells
(d) diamonds on the ocean floor

5. What does Ned Land say he does not feel?
(a) certain they know where they are
(b) sure that they will escape
(c) happy that he has to work too hard
(d) safe on this scrap heap of metal

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aronnax say he sees traveling in the Nautilus?

2. What does the captain decide to do after months at sea and no sighting of the monster?

3. What evidence does Aronnax give Land to support his theory of a large sea animal?

4. What is Captain Nemo conducting in the Indian Ocean?

5. What does Conseil think Captain Nemo is?

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