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