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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 Aronnax fear about the heavy air in the room where they are?
2. Tell about the encounter with the captain of a whaling ship.
3. What do the three men do on the island?
4. How many shipwrecks occurred that year?
5. What valuable item does Nemo take from a secret place?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the captain of the Monroe whaling boat request of Captain Farragut?
2. From the small submarine, tell what Aronnax observes in an underwater cemetery.
3. Relate Aronnax's encounter with the strange man.
4. What does the U.S. government invite Aronnax to join?
5. Tell about the first thing Captain Nemo allows Aronnax to see on the Nautilus.
6. Briefly describe Aronnax's first walk on the sea floor.
7. What happens in the pearl fishing grounds of the Indian Ocean?
8. What is Nemo's response to Aronnax's idea they cannot reach the Mediterranean by the next day?
9. Briefly detail the problem with the telescope.
10. Why is Aronnax concerned about the savages and what does Nemo do about it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay on the comparison of a book to a movie adaptation. After watching the movie, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, evaluate how closely the film version adheres to the novel. Include reasons that screenplays are limited in what they can depict on the screen.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay on character development in a novel. Include which of the characters appear to be one-dimensional and which characters are drawn with more detail. Mention the reason that some characters receive more attention than others.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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