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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Aronnax happen to be in the right place at the right time to be invited to join the hunt?
(a) He is a survivor of the sunken Scotia.
(b) He is lecturing at the University of Florida.
(c) He is the first scientist to have a sighting of the monster.
(d) Aronnax is in New York City at the height of the controversy about the sea monster.

2. Although the inactive volcano offers no means of escape, what does Ned Land find that cheers him up?
(a) large birds to kill and take back to the Nautilus
(b) diamonds as big as his fist
(c) a stash of rum left by pirates
(d) bees making honey

3. What awakens Aronnax at three in the morning?
(a) He is thrown out of bed.
(b) Water is leaking into Aronnax's chamber.
(c) Ned wakes him with another escape plan.
(d) The boiler explodes.

4. Where is the Nautilus when Aronnax cannot figure out where they are?
(a) by an uncharted island
(b) in a deep underwater cave
(c) the center of a lake formed by an inactive volcano
(d) under the Rock of Gibraltar

5. What does Conseil politely ask Aronnax in the water?
(a) if he has any last wishes
(b) if he can see any other survivors
(c) if he knows how to tread water
(d) if he can cut away his clothes

Short Answer Questions

1. What meat does Land manage to kill to take back to the Nautilus?

2. After Ceylon, where do they travel?

3. What do they observe coming from the Ganges River?

4. How does the Nautilus finally get through?

5. What is described as the most interesting river in the sea?

(see the answer key)

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