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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 happens to Conseil when he touches a ray?

2. How does Nemo classify what caused the condition of the Nautilus?

3. What is happening when the Nautilus prepares to leave the South Pole?

4. How does Nemo attempt to free the Nautilus?

5. What happens to save the life of Aronnax?

Short Essay Questions

1. Write about the man made marvel they observed under the sea.

2. What happens when Nemo sees Land trying to signal an approaching ship?

3. Mention briefly the problem as the Nautilus leaves the South Pole.

4. What is Nemo's behavior after he watches the destruction of the gunship?

5. Tell something about Nemo's egotistical action when he locates the South Pole.

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

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

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

9. Where does Aronnax learn they are when he cannot recognize the landscape?

10. Where does Aronnax finally come to?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 Evaluate the importance of fact and historical reference to make a story believable.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 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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