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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. How many shipwrecks occurred that year?

2. What makes up the forest of Crespo?

3. Describe Aronnax's immediate action after he receives the invitation.

4. What is Aronnax beginning to think about Nemo?

5. What happens when Ned Land gets close enough to throw his harpoon?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the pearl seen differently by different people?

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

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

4. What does Aronnax observe that explains Nemo's vast wealth?

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

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

7. How are Aronnax and Conseil saved from drowning after falling off the Abraham Lincoln?

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

9. What is Nemo's response to Aronnax's idea they cannot reach the Mediterranean by the next day?

10. What does the U.S. government invite Aronnax to join?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write an essay on the importance of imagination for writing science fiction. Base your essay on the fact that Jules Verne was writing in the 19th century about scientific ideas that have been achieved remarkably similar to his imaginative novels of his day.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on why Captain Nemo qualifies as an anti-hero. You will need to include such things as moments of compassion as contrasted with emotional coldness. Also point out the exceptional accomplishments of the anti-hero and the combination of positive and negative actions the anti-hero exhibits.

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