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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 happens to save the life of Aronnax?
(a) The Nautilus breaks through at the last minute.
(b) Nemo releases the emergency air.
(c) Ned and Conseil sacrifice some of their air.
(d) They put him into a diving suit and give him air.

2. What does Nemo say he intends to do?
(a) to attack the foreign ship
(b) to race the foreign ship
(c) to submerge and hide the Nautilus
(d) to spy on the foreign ship

3. Where are Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned?
(a) in Spain
(b) in Iceland
(c) in Norway
(d) in Ireland

4. What does Aronnax know about what happened to the Nautilus?
(a) Exactly where it is.
(b) He has no idea.
(c) He saw it split apart.
(d) That is was crushed in the maelstrom.

5. What are the plans that night for Ned, Conseil, and Aronnax?
(a) take Nemo hostage
(b) assassinate Nemo
(c) bribe the crew
(d) escape or die

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Nautilus finally get through?

2. How do they try to get through the ice?

3. What does Aronnax notice when Nemo says the name, Avenger?

4. Where does it appear that Nemo is heading?

5. What worries Aronnax about the next day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Aronnax's anxiety over asking for their freedom.

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

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

4. Describe Aronnax's concern about making it to the Pole on time.

5. Where does Aronnax finally come to?

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

7. Explain how Conseil recognizes Ned Land's restlessness.

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

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

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

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