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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 9 | Part 1 Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describe Aronnax's immediate action after he receives the invitation.
(a) He telegraphs France to say he will be staying longer.
(b) He goes to the library to read up on sea monsters.
(c) He writes out his last will and testament.
(d) The first thing he does is to contact his trusted servant of ten years, Conseil, a Flemish boy age thirty.

2. Taken aboard the mysterious craft, who does Aronnax think they have been saved by?
(a) pirates
(b) the U. S. Navy
(c) people from Atlantis
(d) a whale that swallowed them

3. What evidence does Aronnax give Land to support his theory of a large sea animal?
(a) and estimate of how it would be too expensive to make a machine like that
(b) a long scientific explanation on water pressure on various size animals at various depths of the sea
(c) some fuzzy photos taken by people who have spotted it
(d) scraps of flesh removed from some of the damaged ships

4. How many shipwrecks occurred that year?
(a) about 300
(b) over 3,000
(c) exactly 30
(d) approximately 30,000

5. What does the captain decide to do after months at sea and no sighting of the monster?
(a) The captain decides to do a stopover in Rio, Brazil.
(b) Captain Farragut announces they will search only three more days.
(c) Farragut decides to retrace their path to see if they missed anything.
(d) The captain decides to try the waters of the antarctic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aronnax rule out the possibility of an individual creating the monster?

2. After falling from the Abraham Lincoln, what is Aronnax's condition?

3. Why does Aronnax have trouble falling asleep after the rescue?

4. Who are the two people on board who are not enthusiastic about the search?

5. How long do Conseil and Ned think they have been asleep when they finally wake up?

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