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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Nemo classify what caused the condition of the Nautilus?
(a) as a normal occurrance
(b) as an accident of nature
(c) as a total disaster
(d) as a human error

2. What do sailors take from a dead whale?
(a) skin
(b) blood
(c) milk
(d) blubber

3. What does Nemo say the lake is to him?
(a) a resting place from winds and currents
(b) a secret hideout for his treasures
(c) a place where he will one day build a house
(d) a place to repair the Nautilus

4. What does Aronnax say that only he and Nemo know?
(a) how deep are man's thoughts
(b) what is exceedingly deep
(c) how deep a submarine can go
(d) how deep the ocean is

5. How does the Nautilus finally get through?
(a) by overheating the submarine
(b) by ramming where the ice cracks
(c) by another accident of nature
(d) by moving back and forth

6. Soon after their conversation, what do they see in the water?
(a) a giant cuttlefish, at least eight yards long
(b) a huge cloud of squid ink
(c) a cuttlefish killing a shark
(d) a squid six feet long

7. What does it appear Nemo is looking for?
(a) a certain spot in the ocean
(b) a good place to surface
(c) another giant squid
(d) a place to refuel the Nautilus

8. Where do they get manatees and turtles?
(a) near the Amazon
(b) from passing fishing boats
(c) out in the high seas
(d) in the Caribbean

9. What are the plans that night for Ned, Conseil, and Aronnax?
(a) escape or die
(b) bribe the crew
(c) assassinate Nemo
(d) take Nemo hostage

10. Where is the Nautilus when Aronnax cannot figure out where they are?
(a) the center of a lake formed by an inactive volcano
(b) in a deep underwater cave
(c) by an uncharted island
(d) under the Rock of Gibraltar

11. When the ship rights itself and rises to the surface, what is it position?
(a) turned around the wrong way
(b) caught in a tunnel of ice filled with quiet water
(c) wedged between two icebergs
(d) sitting on top of an iceberg

12. What prevents the three prisoners from escaping this time?
(a) A terrible storm arises.
(b) Nemo locks down the exit.
(c) The Nautilus goes to the bottom of the sea.
(d) Nemo comes to visit.

13. How does Nemo attempt to free the Nautilus?
(a) by going in reverse
(b) by ramming the ice
(c) by spinning it around
(d) by submerging again

14. What does Aronnax see when the Nautilus settles to the bottom?
(a) the ruin of a ship
(b) another submarine
(c) a large, dark hole
(d) a strange graveyard

15. What mysterious spot does Aronnax see near an underwater volcano?
(a) Atlantis
(b) a bottomless pit
(c) the Colossus of Rhodes
(d) the lost city of the Amazons

Short Answer Questions

1. How close to the South Pole does Nemo say he will get with his chronometer?

2. How deep does the Nautilus have to descend to get away from the hurricane?

3. What happens to Conseil when he touches a ray?

4. What is Sargasso?

5. What does Aronnax suggest the Nautilus needs?

(see the answer keys)

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