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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ned Land's response to an invitation to explore underwater?
(a) He agrees to go reluctantly.
(b) He jumps at the chance.
(c) He laughs.
(d) He refuses.

2. 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

3. How is the animal finally killed?
(a) Conseil hits it with an oar.
(b) Land harpoons it through the heart.
(c) The animal cannot come up for air.
(d) Land stabs it with his knife.

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

5. 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

6. 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) Farragut decides to retrace their path to see if they missed anything.
(c) The captain decides to try the waters of the antarctic.
(d) The captain decides to do a stopover in Rio, Brazil.

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

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

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

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

11. Why does Nemo take Aronnax to the sailors' quarters to see if he can do anything?
(a) Two men are coughing up blood.
(b) A man has been fatally wounded.
(c) Some of the men have scurvy.
(d) A man has been stung by a manta ray.

12. What does Aronnax see in the glade of coral at the coral kingdom?
(a) a new species of eel
(b) a coral mine
(c) a strange coral cross
(d) a coral eating crab

13. What meat does Land manage to kill to take back to the Nautilus?
(a) a few wild hens
(b) a giant turtle and a pelican
(c) an animal something like a hog and six rodents
(d) a deer and two rabbits

14. What are the strange words a man says to Aronnax on the platform?
(a) Nautron batron varni lurch
(b) Nautron respoc lorni virch
(c) Lorsom novo barter est
(d) Bibbity bobbity boo

15. What is the shape of the Nautilus?
(a) like a box
(b) like a saucer
(c) like a cylinder with conical ends
(d) like a train

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous historical figure does Nemo discuss with Aronnax?

2. What does Conseil think Captain Nemo is?

3. What is Captain Nemo conducting in the Indian Ocean?

4. Looking through the glass port, what does Ned Land have to admit about the view of the ocean?

5. Tell about the encounter with the captain of a whaling ship.

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