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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nemo say do not exist in his undersea world?
(a) women or children
(b) unjust laws or wars
(c) hunger or cold
(d) money or banks

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

3. How many shipwrecks occurred that year?
(a) about 300
(b) over 3,000
(c) approximately 30,000
(d) exactly 30

4. Why does Aronnax rule out the possibility of an individual creating the monster?
(a) There is no precedent for such a machine.
(b) It cannot be something mechanical.
(c) The thing would cost too much for a private party to make.
(d) One individual could not control something that large.

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

6. What does Ned do as the shark is about to kill Captain Nemo?
(a) He kills the shark with his harpoon.
(b) He panicks and swims for the Nautilus.
(c) He laughs and watches.
(d) He faints.

7. What is the first strange thing Aronnax observes about Nemo's behavior.
(a) He goes missing for two days.
(b) He talks to himself out loud.
(c) He appears to be highly superstitious.
(d) He sometimes talks gibberish.

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

9. After Ceylon, where do they travel?
(a) near the mouth of the Tigris River
(b) near the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Onan
(c) the Bay of Bengal
(d) the Andaman Sea

10. What is the offer Captain Farragut makes as they search for the monster?
(a) a bottle of rum for the frist person to spot it
(b) a promotion to ensign for the first person to spot it
(c) a write up in the newspapers about the person who spots it
(d) a $2,000 reward to the first person on the frigate who spots it

11. Briefly describe Ned Land.
(a) He is Conseil's cousin conscripted for the trip.
(b) He is a Frenchman only on board to translate for Aronnax.
(c) Land is a Canadian who speaks French with Aronnax. He has been a seaman all his life and has many interesting tales about his adventures.
(d) He is a Canadian scientist who disbelieves the whole thing.

12. Tell what Ned Land and Captain Farragut decide to do to get the monster.
(a) to go for the monster with harpoons from the frigate itself
(b) to put out in a small boat
(c) to drop raw meat into the ocean
(d) to try to ram it with the bow of the frigate

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Aronnax's assigned room like?

2. Why is the large bird staggering around after eating the nutmeg?

3. What does the public speculate the object is?

4. What is described as the most interesting river in the sea?

5. What do they observe coming from the Ganges River?

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