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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is the frigate unable to catch the monster?
(a) It submerges often and comes up in back of the ship.
(b) It swims agilely at a speed of perhaps thirty miles per hour.
(c) It makes sharper turns than the ship can make.
(d) It keeps going around in circles.

3. What is Aronnax's reply when Land asks if he would leave if Nemo gave them permission?
(a) Only if Nemo would go with them.
(b) No, he would not leave.
(c) He is not sure.
(d) He would jump at the chance.

4. Taken aboard the mysterious craft, who does Aronnax think they have been saved by?
(a) a whale that swallowed them
(b) people from Atlantis
(c) the U. S. Navy
(d) pirates

5. What does Aronnax explain to Ned and Conseil about pearls?
(a) why they have no particular value
(b) how they are harvested and their value
(c) why they are so easy to find
(d) where in the world then can be found

6. What do they observe coming from the Ganges River?
(a) oil pollution
(b) sea turtles
(c) salmon
(d) human bodies

7. What does Aronnax find in the pearl grotto?
(a) a school of sharks waiting for him
(b) a pearl the size of a coconut
(c) the body of a drowned pearl diver
(d) a treasure map left by pirates

8. What is Ned Land's response to an invitation to explore underwater?
(a) He jumps at the chance.
(b) He refuses.
(c) He agrees to go reluctantly.
(d) He laughs.

9. What famous historical figure does Nemo discuss with Aronnax?
(a) Captain Kidd
(b) La Perouse
(c) Captain Cook
(d) George Washington

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

11. What does the public speculate the object is?
(a) a sea monster like the Loch Ness dragon
(b) something from outer space
(c) an island reef, a sea serpent, or a whale of unknown species
(d) a mirage, not real at all

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

13. What does Aronnax see in the glade of coral at the coral kingdom?
(a) a coral mine
(b) a coral eating crab
(c) a strange coral cross
(d) a new species of eel

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

15. What does Conseil politely ask Aronnax in the water?
(a) if he can see any other survivors
(b) if he can cut away his clothes
(c) if he has any last wishes
(d) if he knows how to tread water

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Nautilus sink and rise?

2. What does Aronnax discover in Nemo's library?

3. As they enter the Red Sea, what does Aronnax find?

4. What does Nemo do that surprises Aronnax?

5. What does Nemo inform Aronnax?

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