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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they see off the coast of Ceylon?
(a) herds of sea horses
(b) swimming elephants
(c) the pearl fisheries there
(d) underwater caves

2. What does Aronnax see in the glade of coral at the coral kingdom?
(a) a coral eating crab
(b) a strange coral cross
(c) a coral mine
(d) a new species of eel

3. Why is the frigate unable to catch the monster?
(a) It makes sharper turns than the ship can make.
(b) It submerges often and comes up in back of the ship.
(c) It keeps going around in circles.
(d) It swims agilely at a speed of perhaps thirty miles per hour.

4. What does Ned do as the shark is about to kill Captain Nemo?
(a) He panicks and swims for the Nautilus.
(b) He faints.
(c) He kills the shark with his harpoon.
(d) He laughs and watches.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nemo inform Aronnax?

2. What happens to the small boat when the wounded animal attacks?

3. Taken aboard the mysterious craft, who does Aronnax think they have been saved by?

4. What repels the savages trying to get inside the Nautilus?

5. What does Conseil think Captain Nemo is?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Captain Nemo explain the electricity on the Nautilus?

2. What does the captain of the Monroe whaling boat request of Captain Farragut?

3. How is the pearl seen differently by different people?

4. Tell about the first thing Captain Nemo allows Aronnax to see on the Nautilus.

5. Describe why Ned interrupts Aronnax's reading and what he shows him.

6. Describe the amusing fowl they see on the island of Gilboa.

7. From the small submarine, tell what Aronnax observes in an underwater cemetery.

8. What happens in the pearl fishing grounds of the Indian Ocean?

9. What are some of the fantastic ideas about the monster and how does it captivate the public?

10. Describe the tone of the novel as the story begins.

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