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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As they enter the Red Sea, what does Aronnax find?
(a) the lost Red Sea scrolls
(b) the lost city of Mocha
(c) the lost tablets of stone
(d) the lost continent of Atlantis

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

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

4. What is professor Aronnax's conclusion about what the sightings are?
(a) a man-made object
(b) a marine animal of enormous power
(c) an optical illusion
(d) a volcanic eruption under the sea

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

6. How does Nemo describe himself to Aronnax, Conseil, and Land?
(a) as a man on a mission to save the whales
(b) as a great inventor and benefactor of lost sailors
(c) as a man who has broken all ties that bound him to humankind
(d) as a man who has been longing for English speaking company

7. What does Conseil think Captain Nemo is?
(a) a madman
(b) an American spy
(c) a misunderstood genius
(d) a figment of their imagination

8. What does Aronnax discover in Nemo's library?
(a) current newspapers
(b) Nemo's journals
(c) twelve thousand books
(d) a wet bar

9. What does Nemo show Aronnax in his own quarters?
(a) pictures of his family
(b) books on the seven seas
(c) maps he has made of the ocean floor
(d) many useful instruments for ocean travel and exploration

10. What is Aronnax beginning to think about Nemo?
(a) that he is dying of some horrible disease
(b) that he is mentally deranged and a very dangerous man
(c) that he is actually a benevolent man trying to save the oceans
(d) that Captain Nemo is filled with hate and seeking revenge

11. What does Aronnax fear about the heavy air in the room where they are?
(a) The oxygen in the room has been depleted.
(b) The room is filling up with water.
(c) The people are trying to kill them.
(d) The walls are closing in.

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

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

14. 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) He is a survivor of the sunken Scotia.
(c) He is lecturing at the University of Florida.
(d) Aronnax is in New York City at the height of the controversy about the sea monster.

15. How long do Conseil and Ned think they have been asleep when they finally wake up?
(a) for one full day
(b) for a few hours
(c) for a few minutes
(d) for a week

Short Answer Questions

1. How many shipwrecks occurred that year?

2. Why does Nemo take Aronnax to the sailors' quarters to see if he can do anything?

3. What artifact does Nemo show Aronnax that he had recovered from the sea?

4. What does Aronnax see in the glade of coral at the coral kingdom?

5. Through what do they pass to get outside the submerged Nautilus?

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