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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Aronnax say he sees traveling in the Nautilus?
(a) many other shipwrecks
(b) many drowned land birds
(c) many telegraph cables
(d) many changes in the ocean currents

3. 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 actually standing on the back of the monster.
(d) He is swimming toward them.

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

5. How fast can the Nautilus go?
(a) about thirty miles per hour
(b) speeds up to 100 miles per hour
(c) about as fast as a frigate
(d) speeds up to fifty miles per hour

6. What is Aronnax's assigned room like?
(a) a hastily converted pantry
(b) a large room with a bed, dressing table and other furniture
(c) a room with a view of the ocean
(d) a stark room just barely large enough for a bed

7. What makes up the forest of Crespo?
(a) rock formations that look like a forest
(b) petrified trees
(c) underwater tree plants that stretch up to the top of the ocean
(d) large kelp plants

8. How does Land react to the steward who comes into the room after he wakes up?
(a) Land is grateful to see a human face.
(b) Land is relieved to see another Canadian.
(c) Land smiles and asks a lot of questions.
(d) Land is so angry he jumps him and starts to strangle him.

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

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

11. What does Nemo do that surprises Aronnax?
(a) permits them to stay on the platform alone
(b) invites them to a birthday party
(c) allows them to go hunting on an island
(d) lets them go out alone in the small boat

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

13. 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

14. What do they see off the coast of Ceylon?
(a) herds of sea horses
(b) swimming elephants
(c) underwater caves
(d) the pearl fisheries there

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do Conseil and Ned think they have been asleep when they finally wake up?

2. What makes Aronnax go get his telescope?

3. What repels the savages trying to get inside the Nautilus?

4. What is the first view from the surface Aronnax enjoys with Captain Nemo?

5. What does Conseil believe about the outcome of the trip?

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