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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they all remember about the squid battle?
(a) the sailor taken into the mouth of the squid
(b) the size of the monster
(c) the sounds of the battle
(d) the color of the ink

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

3. What does Ned say he will do if the distant ship comes near the Nautilus?
(a) He will light a flare.
(b) He will set the Nautilus on fire.
(c) He will wave his handkerchief.
(d) He will jump ship.

4. What does Aronnax observe as they move past Gibraltar?
(a) the wreck of the Hesperace
(b) the ruins of the Temple of Hercules
(c) the White Cliffs of dover
(d) the skeletons of murdered slaves

5. What does Land say escaping at the speed they are traveling would be like?
(a) like running into a brick wall
(b) like diving without a mask
(c) like falling from a tall building
(d) like jumping off a speeding train

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

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

8. Where on the map does Aronnax show Conseil they are then located?
(a) a reef that forms a bar to the Straits of Libya
(b) just south of Italy
(c) moving along the southern coast of France
(d) near Mount Aetna

9. What does Aronnax know about what happened to the Nautilus?
(a) He has no idea.
(b) He saw it split apart.
(c) That is was crushed in the maelstrom.
(d) Exactly where it is.

10. What has Conseil heard about giant squid?
(a) some are larger than the Nautilus
(b) some put out electric charges
(c) some have a great appetite for humans
(d) some are known to take down ships

11. What is Sargasso?
(a) a Spanish dance
(b) a Spanish word for sea kelp
(c) a special Spanish dish
(d) a Spanish word meaning danger

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

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

15. What are the sailors doing to replenish their food supply?
(a) casting fishing nets
(b) bartering with passing fishermen
(c) diving for crabs and oysters
(d) going ashore to hunt game

Short Answer Questions

1. When the ship rights itself and rises to the surface, what is it position?

2. What is happening when the Nautilus prepares to leave the South Pole?

3. How does Nemo classify what caused the condition of the Nautilus?

4. After the aborted escape attempt, what does Aronnax tell Land?

5. Where do they get manatees and turtles?

(see the answer keys)

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