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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nemo inform Aronnax?
(a) It is possible to walk underwater.
(b) It is possible to breathe sea water.
(c) It is possible to stay submerged for a month.
(d) It is possible to talk underwater.

2. How does Nemo propose to get them from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean?
(a) through what he calls it the Arabian Tunnel
(b) by making the Nautilus fly
(c) by going through the Suez Canal
(d) by going around the southern tip of Africa

3. What is the offer Captain Farragut makes as they search for the monster?
(a) a promotion to ensign for the first person to spot it
(b) a write up in the newspapers about the person who spots it
(c) a bottle of rum for the frist person to spot it
(d) a $2,000 reward to the first person on the frigate who spots it

4. What does Nemo's aide kill underwater?
(a) an electric eel
(b) a giant sea spider
(c) a small shark
(d) a stingray

5. What does Nemo say do not exist in his undersea world?
(a) hunger or cold
(b) money or banks
(c) unjust laws or wars
(d) women or children

Short Answer Questions

1. Briefly describe Ned Land.

2. What does Aronnax insist they thought they were hunting and attacking?

3. What does Conseil politely ask Aronnax in the water?

4. Tell what Ned Land and Captain Farragut decide to do to get the monster.

5. What does Aronnax see in the glade of coral at the coral kingdom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Relate Aronnax's encounter with the strange man.

2. How does Captain Nemo explain the electricity on the Nautilus?

3. Describe why Ned interrupts Aronnax's reading and what he shows him.

4. Mention how a dugong almost kills the men in a small boat.

5. Describe how the three men are treated when they first come on board the Nautilus.

6. Briefly detail the problem with the telescope.

7. Explain the difference Nemo sees in the encounters with the Scotia and the Abraham Lincoln.

8. Explain what bothers Ned Land in December.

9. Explain the different opinions Conseil and Aronnax have about Nemo.

10. What is the unexpected pleasure Nemo gives the three captives near the island of Gilboa?

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