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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 worries Aronnax about the next day?
(a) It is the equinox.
(b) The walruses are headed that way.
(c) They will run out of fuel for fires.
(d) A snowstorm is expected.

2. What does Aronnax consider doing as they head out into the Atlantic?
(a) sabotaging the Nautilus engines
(b) simply asking Captain Nemo for his freedom
(c) taking Nemo hostage
(d) re-writing all his notes

3. What do sailors take from a dead whale?
(a) blubber
(b) milk
(c) blood
(d) skin

4. When the ship rights itself and rises to the surface, what is it position?
(a) sitting on top of an iceberg
(b) turned around the wrong way
(c) wedged between two icebergs
(d) caught in a tunnel of ice filled with quiet water

5. What does Ned ask Captain Nemo?
(a) permission to go ashore
(b) permission to go below
(c) permission to shoot some whales
(d) permission to steer the Nautilus

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aronnax know about what happened to the Nautilus?

2. What does Aronnax wonder about Nemo's manuscript?

3. How deep does the Nautilus have to descend to get away from the hurricane?

4. When the Nautilus cannot move, how does Aronnax describe the situation?

5. What does Aronnax call the Gulf Stream?

Short Essay Questions

1. Relate Ned's heightened anxiety after the battle with the giant squid.

2. Briefly describe the beginning of the battle with the giant squid.

3. Where does Aronnax finally come to?

4. What prevents the men from escaping in the Mediterranean?

5. Describe what Nemo does to the cachalots that are attacking defenseless whales.

6. How does Conseil get wounded?

7. What does Nemo tell Aronnax about the sunken ship he has come to see?

8. Tell something about Nemo's egotistical action when he locates the South Pole.

9. When the Nautilus gets stuck in the Great Ice Barrier, how do Aronnax and Nemo see things differently?

10. Mention Aronnax's problem just before the Nautilus clears the surface.

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