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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 was the only flaw in the explorer's artificial paradise?

2. Who agrees with Miss Murray?

3. What was Quatermain's fear?

4. What two things can Mina feel that indicate the top deck?

5. What native place did Randolph Carter see?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was so interesting about the crystal the group had landed on?

2. Why is Nemo worse than Hyde?

3. Why is the Sergeant so surprised?

4. Why had the dead man at first witnessed the castle with a pang of grief?

5. What causes Nemo and Quatermain to run to open the door of the Nautilus?

6. What distresses Mina Murray regarding what Griffin is wearing?

7. What does Moriarty say in regards to Quatermain?

8. How does Miss Murray get Hyde to release her arm?

9. What situation shocks the group after they have been rescued?

10. What is Quatermain fascinated with and what is Murray's reaction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the flirtatious nature of Rosa Coote. How would this be unacceptable in a school administrator? Why is this the case? What factors would be considered taboo, if not criminal?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the elements of this story that are realistic. What of this story is entirely a work of fiction? Do you think there is a good balance between fact and fiction? What maintains the balance or topples it into the realm of fantasy?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the relationship between Allan Quatermain and Mina Murray. How does it change throughout the novel and why? Hypothesize on the development of their relationship in the League for the next installation of the series.

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