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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the shape of the Nautilus?
(a) like a cylinder with conical ends
(b) like a box
(c) like a train
(d) like a saucer

2. What nationalities does Aronnax guess the captors to be?
(a) African, Asian, or Polynesian
(b) Spanish, Arabian, or Indian
(c) Norwegian, Brazilian, or Russian
(d) Peruvian, Mexican, or Argentinian

3. Although the inactive volcano offers no means of escape, what does Ned Land find that cheers him up?
(a) diamonds as big as his fist
(b) bees making honey
(c) a stash of rum left by pirates
(d) large birds to kill and take back to the Nautilus

4. What does Ned take Aronnax to view outside the Nautilus one morning?
(a) men outside mining diamonds
(b) giant squid trying to get inside the Nautilus
(c) whales playing around the Nautilus
(d) corpses, some still fresh and even one of a woman

5. How does Nemo propose to get them from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean?
(a) through what he calls it the Arabian Tunnel
(b) by making the Nautilus fly
(c) by going around the southern tip of Africa
(d) by going through the Suez Canal

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to save the life of Aronnax?

2. What does Nemo point out to Aronnax?

3. How many shipwrecks occurred that year?

4. What does Aronnax say to Ned and Conseil?

5. Why is the frigate unable to catch the monster?

(see the answer key)

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