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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 does Aronnax find the taste of seaweed cigars?

2. What makes Aronnax go get his telescope?

3. Through what do they pass to get outside the submerged Nautilus?

4. What is Captain Nemo conducting in the Indian Ocean?

5. How does Nemo propose to get them from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe how the three men are treated when they first come on board the Nautilus.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Briefly detail the problem with the telescope.

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

10. What is the unexpected pleasure Nemo gives the three captives near the island of Gilboa?

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 the dialog in TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. Find lines like this: "Sir, I have to speak to you on a matter that admits of no delay." After finding several such line that use language in a different way from how we speak today, re-write the lines in modern speech. Include in your essay how the dialog as written helps keep the time it was written in focus.

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