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

2. What is Nemo's prognosis if they cannot escape the ice tunnel?
(a) they will have to stay there until summer
(b) they have less than forty-eight hours to live
(c) they will be crushed by the growing ice
(d) they will run out of food and starve to death

3. What do the kelp and marine life create in the water of the Sargasso?
(a) a strange color
(b) a poisonous environment
(c) a danger to the Nautilus
(d) a mysterious seascape

4. How does Nemo classify what caused the condition of the Nautilus?
(a) as a total disaster
(b) as a normal occurrance
(c) as a human error
(d) as an accident of nature

5. Where does Aronnax hope they are not heading?
(a) to the straits of Magellan
(b) to the Bermuda Triangle
(c) to the South Pole
(d) to the North Pole

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Nautilus finally get through?

2. What does Aronnax say that only he and Nemo know?

3. How does Nemo attempt to free the Nautilus?

4. What hunch does Aronnax have that the sailors on the Nautilus are?

5. What does Nemo say when he finds what he is looking for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the conversation between Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned out on the platform?

4. What are the final escape plans?

5. Relate the dire prediction Nemo makes as a worst case scenario when they are stuck under the ice.

6. How are the feelings of Aronnax somewhat mixed about Captain Nemo?

7. How does Nemo react when Aronnax comments that the treasure they find is not used for a noble purpose?

8. After testing how deep the Nautilus can go, describe what happens.

9. Explain the attitude of the three prisoners after the South Pole visit.

10. What is the difficulty for the Nautilus to rise from under the ice?

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