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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nemo say do not exist in his undersea world?

2. How does Aronnax happen to be in the right place at the right time to be invited to join the hunt?

3. What is the name of the vessel?

4. Briefly describe Ned Land.

5. As they enter the Red Sea, what does Aronnax find?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain the different opinions Conseil and Aronnax have about Nemo.

3. Explain the situation after the three men eat and fall asleep.

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

5. Explain what bothers Ned Land in December.

6. What is the exciting thing that happens as they return for the island of Crespo?

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

8. What happens in the pearl fishing grounds of the Indian Ocean?

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

10. Who is the narrator of the story?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the importance of research in writing a novel. Evaluate the importance of fact and historical reference to make a story believable. Also mention the part folklore and superstition play in making a novel both interesting and believable. Discuss how a writer like Verne can describe accurately such things as harpooning a whale without ever having had the experience personally.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about conserving biological species such as the whales. Include Nemo's argument with Ned Land that killing just for the sake of killing is wrong. Mention also that Jules Verne was writing a hundred years before many species of whale became endangered from over fishing.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about how plans often do not work out. Use the many escape plans of Ned Land that never came to fruition. Discuss how this is often true in real life that plans do not work out the way they were conceived.

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