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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What animal does Ned harpoon along the Arabian coast?
(a) an oryx
(b) a large sea otter
(c) a crocodile
(d) a dugong
2. What does the captain decide to do after months at sea and no sighting of the monster?
(a) Captain Farragut announces they will search only three more days.
(b) The captain decides to do a stopover in Rio, Brazil.
(c) The captain decides to try the waters of the antarctic.
(d) Farragut decides to retrace their path to see if they missed anything.
3. What is Ned Land looking forward to at the oyster beds?
(a) eating oysters that evening
(b) finding a way to escape
(c) harpooning sharks
(d) finding large pearls
4. What does Ned Land say he does not feel?
(a) sure that they will escape
(b) safe on this scrap heap of metal
(c) certain they know where they are
(d) happy that he has to work too hard
5. Looking through the glass port, what does Ned Land have to admit about the view of the ocean?
(a) the view is frightening
(b) the view is uninteresting
(c) the view is polluted
(d) the view is wonderful
6. What is described as the most interesting river in the sea?
(a) the River Styx
(b) the Sargasso Stream
(c) the Arabian Tunnel
(d) the Gulf Stream
7. Why does Aronnax have trouble falling asleep after the rescue?
(a) He has cramps from being in the cold water.
(b) He cannot sleep with the lights on.
(c) He always suffers from insomnia.
(d) He has too many troubling thoughts.
8. What is Captain Nemo conducting in the Indian Ocean?
(a) a conference on underwater safety
(b) an experiment on turning lead into gold
(c) experiments on the temperature of the sea
(d) an orientation trip through the Nautilus
9. What does Aronnax observe the sailors doing the morning after the underwater walk?
(a) washing their clothes
(b) cleaning the diving equipment
(c) swimming in the ocean
(d) casting nets for fish
10. What does Aronnax insist they thought they were hunting and attacking?
(a) a sea monster that has been wrecking ships
(b) a warship from China
(c) a sea creature with rabies
(d) a pod of whales they needed for food
11. When they get tired underwater, what do they do?
(a) Return immediately to the Nautilus.
(b) Breathe in extra oxygen.
(c) Stop and sit on giant oyster shells.
(d) They take a long nap.
12. What does Aronnax see in the glade of coral at the coral kingdom?
(a) a strange coral cross
(b) a new species of eel
(c) a coral eating crab
(d) a coral mine
13. Through what do they pass to get outside the submerged Nautilus?
(a) an airtight room
(b) a shower of warm water
(c) a torpedo tunnel
(d) a holding room full of water
14. What does Conseil believe about the outcome of the trip?
(a) that he will die trying to save the life of his master
(b) that Aronnax will sign on for another trip
(c) that when they get back to France, everyone will laugh at them
(d) that the monster will find them and sink the ship
15. How does the Nautilus sink and rise?
(a) by pumping air in from the surface
(b) by heating the water outside the ship
(c) by manipulating the amount of water in its reserves
(d) by powerful motors
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Ned take Aronnax to view outside the Nautilus one morning?
2. After Ceylon, where do they travel?
3. What does Ned do as the shark is about to kill Captain Nemo?
4. After falling from the Abraham Lincoln, what is Aronnax's condition?
5. What is Aronnax's assigned room like?
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