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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the condition of the Nautilus after it is hit by the ice block?
(a) It is losing its reserve air.
(b) It is taking on water.
(c) It is on it side.
(d) It is upside down.

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

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

5. After the destruction of the gun ship, which way is the Nautilus traveling?
(a) east toward England
(b) south toward Bermuda
(c) west toward America
(d) north in the Atlantic

6. What does Aronnax have trouble with as he tries to write about the battle with the squid?
(a) keeping his hand from shaking
(b) steadying his nerves
(c) understanding how it happened
(d) the right words to reflect its horror

7. 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 have to stay there until summer
(d) they will run out of food and starve to death

8. If there are 3,000 feet of ice beneath the water line, how much ice is above the line?
(a) 3,000 feet
(b) 100 feet
(c) 1,000 feet
(d) 500 feet

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

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

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

12. What ominous words does Aronnax hear Nemo say?
(a) Let them eat cake!
(b) Almighty God, enough! Enough!
(c) I'll get them all!
(d) Again and again!

13. How does Nemo claim the South Pole as his?
(a) He unfurls a black banner with a big "N" on it.
(b) He writes his name with black rocks.
(c) He builds a monument of rocks.
(d) He paints a notice on a large rock.

14. What hunch does Aronnax have that the sailors on the Nautilus are?
(a) People who are deathly afraid of Nemo.
(b) People who owe money to Nemo.
(c) People who have renounced every tie that binds them to earth.
(d) Slaves who are owned by Nemo.

15. 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 the ocean is
(d) how deep a submarine can go

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Land say escaping at the speed they are traveling would be like?

2. How long have they been prisoners?

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

4. What do sailors take from a dead whale?

5. What prevents the three prisoners from escaping this time?

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