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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 strange thing Aronnax observes about Nemo's behavior.
(a) He talks to himself out loud.
(b) He sometimes talks gibberish.
(c) He appears to be highly superstitious.
(d) He goes missing for two days.

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

3. When they get tired underwater, what do they do?
(a) Breathe in extra oxygen.
(b) Stop and sit on giant oyster shells.
(c) Return immediately to the Nautilus.
(d) They take a long nap.

4. Taken aboard the mysterious craft, who does Aronnax think they have been saved by?
(a) a whale that swallowed them
(b) pirates
(c) the U. S. Navy
(d) people from Atlantis

5. Describe Aronnax's immediate action after he receives the invitation.
(a) He writes out his last will and testament.
(b) The first thing he does is to contact his trusted servant of ten years, Conseil, a Flemish boy age thirty.
(c) He goes to the library to read up on sea monsters.
(d) He telegraphs France to say he will be staying longer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the Nautilus assembled?

2. What does Aronnax say he sees traveling in the Nautilus?

3. What animal does Ned harpoon along the Arabian coast?

4. What does Aronnax see in the glade of coral at the coral kingdom?

5. What famous historical figure does Nemo discuss with Aronnax?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Aronnax concerned about the savages and what does Nemo do about it?

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

3. What does the U.S. government invite Aronnax to join?

4. Describe the men's first view of the undersea world.

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

6. Relate Aronnax's encounter with the strange man.

7. Mention how a dugong almost kills the men in a small boat.

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

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

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

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