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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 know about what happened to the Nautilus?

2. What happens to Conseil when he touches a ray?

3. Up on the land, what seems to have been its origin?

4. What idea does Captain Nemo come up with to clear the ice?

5. When the ship rights itself and rises to the surface, what is it position?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Conseil recognizes Ned Land's restlessness.

2. Explain the attitude of the three prisoners after the South Pole visit.

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

4. Describe the light reflecting off the ice as seen from inside the Nautilus and the problem it creates.

5. How does Conseil get wounded?

6. How does Nemo react when Aronnax comments that the treasure they find is not used for a noble purpose?

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

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

9. Briefly describe the beginning of the battle with the giant squid.

10. What is the difficulty for the Nautilus to rise from under the ice?

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 metaphor and simile in TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. To do this, you will need to find examples in the novel to evaluate as to their appropriateness and how they add to understanding the meaning behind the words. Include an assessment of how these literary devices add color to the reading.

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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