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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aronnax wonder about Nemo's manuscript?
(a) If it will ever be discovered.
(b) If it got put into the water tight container.
(c) If it is in the Sargasso Sea.
(d) If Nemo had finished it.

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

3. What do the kelp and marine life create in the water of the Sargasso?
(a) a strange color
(b) a danger to the Nautilus
(c) a mysterious seascape
(d) a poisonous environment

4. What is Nemo's prognosis if they cannot escape the ice tunnel?
(a) they have less than forty-eight hours to live
(b) they will be crushed by the growing ice
(c) they will run out of food and starve to death
(d) they will have to stay there until summer

5. Besides Nemo, who else has become mentally unstable after the destruction of the gun ship?
(a) Aronnax
(b) Ned Land
(c) the entire crew
(d) Conseil

6. Why does Aronnax regret trying to escape from Nemo?
(a) He thinks he can help Nemo.
(b) He is a person of infinite interest to him.
(c) He fears Nemo will come after them.
(d) He cannot take his notes with him.

7. What does Ned give Aronnax in the event he needs to commit suicide?
(a) a dagger
(b) a small revolver
(c) a poison pill
(d) a small harpoon

8. What tragedy occurs before they defeat the giant squid?
(a) They lose a crew member to the squid.
(b) Ned Land loses his throwing arm.
(c) The viewing glass breaks so they have to close the panels.
(d) The Nautilus springs a leak.

9. What does Nemo remind Aronnax of?
(a) The Nautilus can skim over the ice.
(b) The Nautilus can cruch the ice
(c) The Nautilus can outlast the ice.
(d) The Nautilus can go under the ice.

10. How do Nemo and Aronnax determine where they are?
(a) watching for the compass to spin around and around
(b) calculations based on the sun and other measurements
(c) watching their shadows
(d) looking at the stars at night

11. What prevents an escape to American shores?
(a) The Nautilus does not rise for a week.
(b) The weather does not cooperate.
(c) The small boat was destroyed in the squid battle.
(d) Nemo stands guard on the platform.

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

13. Before the Nautilus breaks free, what happens to Aronnax?
(a) He almost suffocates.
(b) He nearly freezes.
(c) He catches pneumonia.
(d) He falls asleep and cannot wake up.

14. Where does the Nautilus pass the Antarctic circle?
(a) toward Cape Horn
(b) toward Brazil
(c) toward the mid Atlantic
(d) toward New Zealand

15. How do they try to get through the ice?
(a) by putting on diving suits and trying to chip the ice away
(b) by breaking the ice with sound waves
(c) by using flame throwers on the ice
(d) by putting on diving suits and looking for weak places in the ice

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the plans that night for Ned, Conseil, and Aronnax?

2. Where is the Nautilus when Aronnax cannot figure out where they are?

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

4. What awakens Aronnax at three in the morning?

5. What is the condition of the Nautilus after it is hit by the ice block?

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