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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 Ned Land's response to an invitation to explore underwater?
(a) He refuses.
(b) He agrees to go reluctantly.
(c) He jumps at the chance.
(d) He laughs.

2. How do Aronnax and Conseil finally see Ned Land?
(a) He is swimming toward them.
(b) He is actually standing on the back of the monster.
(c) He is holding onto the dorsal fin of a porpoise.
(d) He is in a small life raft.

3. What evidence does Aronnax give Land to support his theory of a large sea animal?
(a) a long scientific explanation on water pressure on various size animals at various depths of the sea
(b) and estimate of how it would be too expensive to make a machine like that
(c) some fuzzy photos taken by people who have spotted it
(d) scraps of flesh removed from some of the damaged ships

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

5. Through what do they pass to get outside the submerged Nautilus?
(a) a shower of warm water
(b) a torpedo tunnel
(c) a holding room full of water
(d) an airtight room

Short Answer Questions

1. What meat does Land manage to kill to take back to the Nautilus?

2. How does Land react to the steward who comes into the room after he wakes up?

3. What does the public speculate the object is?

4. How fast can the Nautilus go?

5. What do the three men do on the island?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the unexpected pleasure Nemo gives the three captives near the island of Gilboa?

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

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

4. Explain the difference Nemo sees in the encounters with the Scotia and the Abraham Lincoln.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe how the three men are treated when they first come on board the Nautilus.

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