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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aronnax discover in Nemo's library?
(a) a wet bar
(b) Nemo's journals
(c) current newspapers
(d) twelve thousand books

2. What does Conseil believe about the outcome of the trip?
(a) that when they get back to France, everyone will laugh at them
(b) that he will die trying to save the life of his master
(c) that Aronnax will sign on for another trip
(d) that the monster will find them and sink the ship

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

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

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

6. What makes Aronnax go get his telescope?
(a) Nemo is using his and Aronnax does not want to bother him.
(b) Nemo and a lieutenant are looking at something he cannot see.
(c) Aronnax thinks he sees a pod of whales in the distance.
(d) He wants to see if there are any islands nearby.

7. What evidence does Aronnax give Land to support his theory of a large sea animal?
(a) scraps of flesh removed from some of the damaged ships
(b) some fuzzy photos taken by people who have spotted it
(c) and estimate of how it would be too expensive to make a machine like that
(d) a long scientific explanation on water pressure on various size animals at various depths of the sea

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

9. In what year do reports start circulating about the strange creature in the ocean?
(a) 1792
(b) 1866
(c) 1900
(d) 1850

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

11. What is the first view from the surface Aronnax enjoys with Captain Nemo?
(a) the Hawaiian Islands
(b) the California coastline
(c) the Japanese coastline
(d) the Philippines

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

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

14. What happens when Ned Land gets close enough to throw his harpoon?
(a) The harpoon strikes on a hard surface.
(b) Land misses and the monster disappears.
(c) The monster dives almost taking the ship down with it.
(d) The monster throws it back.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Aronnax's reply when Land asks if he would leave if Nemo gave them permission?

2. What does Nemo say do not exist in his undersea world?

3. After leaving the island, where are they when Aronnax begins to wonder where they are going?

4. After speaking with Nemo the morning after the underwater walk, how long is Nemo absent?

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

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