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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1869)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  • 1. Who is the main character in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'?
A) Professor Aronnax
B) Captain Nemo
C) Ned Land
D) Captain Hook
  • 2. What is the name of the submarine in the novel?
A) Thunderbird
B) Nautilus
C) Scorpion
D) Seahawk
  • 3. In which ocean does most of the story take place?
A) Indian Ocean
B) Arctic Ocean
C) Atlantic Ocean
D) Pacific Ocean
  • 4. What is Captain Nemo's real name?
A) Captain Smith
B) King Solomon
C) Prince Dakkar
D) Lord Nelson
  • 5. What is the nationality of Professor Aronnax, one of the main characters?
A) French
B) Russian
C) Spanish
D) English
  • 6. What did Captain Nemo use to create electricity for the Nautilus?
A) Oil
B) Sodium
C) Wind
D) Coal
  • 7. Who is the harpooner that is part of the Nautilus crew?
A) Queequeg
B) Ishmael
C) Ned Land
D) Ahab
  • 8. Who is the author of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'?
A) H.G. Wells
B) Mark Twain
C) Charles Dickens
D) Jules Verne
  • 9. In which periodical was 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' originally serialized?
A) Le Monde Illustré
B) La Revue des Deux Mondes
C) Magasin d'éducation et de récréation
D) Le Figaro
  • 10. Who illustrated the deluxe octavo edition of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' published in November 1871?
A) Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou
B) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin
C) Gustave Doré and Jules Cheret
D) Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet
  • 11. What is the full name of the French marine biologist who serves as the narrator in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Professor Jacques Cousteau
B) Professor Jean Verne
C) Professor Pierre Aronnax
D) Professor Louis Pasteur
  • 12. What year did ships of various nationalities first sight the mysterious sea monster in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) 1850
B) 1880
C) 1866
D) 1875
  • 13. Which U.S. Navy frigate do Aronnax, Land, and Conseil board to hunt the sea monster?
A) USS Constitution
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) USS Enterprise
D) USS Monitor
  • 14. What happens to the frigate Abraham Lincoln after attacking the sea monster in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) It sinks immediately
B) Its rudder is damaged
C) It returns safely
D) It captures the monster
  • 15. Which translation used the 1871 Christian Chelebourg edition as its basis?
A) The 2000 Project Gutenberg translation
B) The 1966 Washington Square Press edition
C) The 2017 Penguin Classics edition translated by David Coward
D) The 1993 Naval Institute Press edition
  • 16. What type of vessel is speculated to be the mysterious sea monster in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) A massive whale
B) A colossal squid
C) A giant octopus
D) A gigantic narwhal
  • 17. What is the name of the dangerous whirlpool that Aronnax and his companions encounter during their escape in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Scylla
B) Charybdis
C) Moskstraumen (Maelstrom)
D) Aegean whirlpool
  • 18. What is the nationality of Ned Land, the harpooner in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) British
B) American
C) Canadian
D) French
  • 19. What is the name of the French submarine that inspired Verne's depiction of Nautilus?
A) Poseidon
B) Nautilus
C) Leviathan
D) Plongeur
  • 20. What does Captain Nemo do to the warship from his homeland in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Captures it
B) Rams it below its waterline and sinks it
C) Negotiates with it
D) Escapes from it
  • 21. How many illustrations did David Coward's 2017 translation include?
A) 100 illustrations
B) 20 illustrations
C) 42 illustrations
D) No illustrations
  • 22. What term did Malaurie Guillaume use to describe Nemo in 2023?
A) Technological pioneer
B) Underwater explorer
C) Visionary scientist
D) First figure of ecological radicalism
  • 23. Who was responsible for the first English translation of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) David Coward
B) Reverend Lewis Page Mercier
C) Walter James Miller
D) Anthony Bonner
  • 24. What motivates Captain Nemo's self-imposed exile in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) To conquer new lands
B) A quest for scientific knowledge and a desire to escape terrestrial civilization
C) To become the ruler of the seas
D) To find treasure and riches
  • 25. Who is the captain of the frigate Abraham Lincoln in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Admiral Farragut
B) Captain Nemo
C) Captain Ahab
D) Captain Hook
  • 26. Which French oceanographer is repeatedly mentioned in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Jacques Cousteau
B) Jean-Baptiste Charcot
C) Louis Antoine de Bougainville
D) Matthew Fontaine Maury
  • 27. Which legendary underwater realm do the characters visit in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Shangri-La
B) Atlantis
C) El Dorado
D) Camelot
  • 28. Who criticized 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' in 1961?
A) Jules Verne
B) Mercier
C) Malaurie Guillaume
D) Theodore L. Thomas
  • 29. According to the 1993 translation notes, whose responsibility were the errors noted by Thomas?
A) Mercier's translation
B) Jules Verne's original text
C) Theodore L. Thomas
D) Malaurie Guillaume
  • 30. Who collaborated with Frederick Paul Walter to produce 'The Completely Restored and Annotated Edition'?
A) Ray Bradbury
B) David Coward
C) William Butcher
D) Walter James Miller
  • 31. What does Captain Nemo use to power his submarine, Nautilus, in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Solar energy
B) Electricity
C) Steam
D) Wind
  • 32. In 2023, who presented Nemo as the first eco-terrorist?
A) Jules Verne
B) Malaurie Guillaume
C) Mercier
D) Theodore L. Thomas
  • 33. Which translation of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' included an introduction by Ray Bradbury?
A) The 1966 Washington Square Press edition
B) The 1976 Thomas Y. Crowel Company edition
C) The 1998 Oxford University Press edition
D) The 1962 Bantam Classics edition translated by Anthony Bonner
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