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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the men enjoy for lunch on the island?
(a) a fox and a crow
(b) a pigeon and woodcock
(c) a fruit bat and a hare
(d) a partridge and a squirrel

3. Tell about the encounter with the captain of a whaling ship.
(a) The captain recognizes Ned Land and hires him away.
(b) The captain laughs at the idea of a giant sea monster.
(c) The captain borrows Ned Land, who happily harpoons two whales for him.
(d) The captain relates an encounter with the monster.

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

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

6. After leaving the island, where are they when Aronnax begins to wonder where they are going?
(a) in the Sargasso Sea
(b) in the straits of gibralter
(c) rounding the Cape of Good Hope
(d) in the Indian Ocean

7. How do Aronnax and Conseil finally see Ned Land?
(a) He is in a small life raft.
(b) He is holding onto the dorsal fin of a porpoise.
(c) He is swimming toward them.
(d) He is actually standing on the back of the monster.

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

9. What do they see at the pearl grotto?
(a) a chest filled with pearls
(b) a shark attacking a diver
(c) a fishing net being lowered
(d) a disoriented whale

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

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

12. What does the captain decide to do after months at sea and no sighting of the monster?
(a) The captain decides to try the waters of the antarctic.
(b) Farragut decides to retrace their path to see if they missed anything.
(c) The captain decides to do a stopover in Rio, Brazil.
(d) Captain Farragut announces they will search only three more days.

13. What valuable item does Nemo take from a secret place?
(a) a box of rare black pearls
(b) a chest full of gold ingots
(c) a statue from Atlantis
(d) a crate of raw diamonds

14. What is Ned Land looking forward to at the oyster beds?
(a) harpooning sharks
(b) finding large pearls
(c) eating oysters that evening
(d) finding a way to escape

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aronnax have trouble falling asleep after the rescue?

2. What does Ned Land say he does not feel?

3. What are the strange words a man says to Aronnax on the platform?

4. Taken aboard the mysterious craft, who does Aronnax think they have been saved by?

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

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