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