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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 is the first view from the surface Aronnax enjoys with Captain Nemo?
(a) the Japanese coastline
(b) the Hawaiian Islands
(c) the Philippines
(d) the California coastline

2. How is the animal finally killed?
(a) Land stabs it with his knife.
(b) The animal cannot come up for air.
(c) Conseil hits it with an oar.
(d) Land harpoons it through the heart.

3. What makes Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land very happy?
(a) to eat all the fresh fish they want
(b) to swim in the ocean
(c) to see the dolphins play
(d) to set foot on land again

4. Looking through the glass port, what does Ned Land have to admit about the view of the ocean?
(a) the view is wonderful
(b) the view is polluted
(c) the view is frightening
(d) the view is uninteresting

5. What does the captain decide to do after months at sea and no sighting of the monster?
(a) The captain decides to try the waters of the antarctic.
(b) The captain decides to do a stopover in Rio, Brazil.
(c) Captain Farragut announces they will search only three more days.
(d) Farragut decides to retrace their path to see if they missed anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Aronnax and Conseil finally see Ned Land?

2. What does Nemo inform Aronnax?

3. What does Ned do as the shark is about to kill Captain Nemo?

4. After Ceylon, where do they travel?

5. What makes up the forest of Crespo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Nemo's response to Aronnax's idea they cannot reach the Mediterranean by the next day?

2. Explain the situation after the three men eat and fall asleep.

3. Explain Captain Nemo's attitude toward the men on their first meeting.

4. Explain what bothers Ned Land in December.

5. Explain the different opinions Conseil and Aronnax have about Nemo.

6. Briefly describe Aronnax's first walk on the sea floor.

7. What do Aronnax and Farragut speculate about the monster?

8. What is the exciting thing that happens as they return for the island of Crespo?

9. How are Aronnax and Conseil saved from drowning after falling off the Abraham Lincoln?

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

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