- 1. Who is the main character in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'?
A) Ned Land
B) Captain Nemo
C) Professor Aronnax
D) Captain Hook
- 2. What is the name of the submarine in the novel?
A) Seahawk
B) Thunderbird
C) Nautilus
D) Scorpion
- 3. In which ocean does most of the story take place?
A) Arctic Ocean
B) Pacific Ocean
C) Atlantic Ocean
D) Indian Ocean
- 4. What is Captain Nemo's real name?
A) King Solomon
B) Lord Nelson
C) Captain Smith
D) Prince Dakkar
- 5. What is the nationality of Professor Aronnax, one of the main characters?
A) English
B) Spanish
C) French
D) Russian
- 6. What did Captain Nemo use to create electricity for the Nautilus?
A) Wind
B) Sodium
C) Oil
D) Coal
- 7. Who is the harpooner that is part of the Nautilus crew?
A) Queequeg
B) Ahab
C) Ishmael
D) Ned Land
- 8. Who is the author of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Charles Dickens
C) Jules Verne
D) H.G. Wells
- 9. In which periodical was 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' originally serialized?
A) La Revue des Deux Mondes
B) Le Monde Illustré
C) Le Figaro
D) Magasin d'éducation et de récréation
- 10. Who illustrated the deluxe octavo edition of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' published in November 1871?
A) Gustave Doré and Jules Cheret
B) Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou
C) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin
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) 1880
B) 1875
C) 1866
D) 1850
- 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) Admiral Farragut
B) Captain Ahab
C) Captain Hook
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 massive whale
B) A gigantic narwhal
C) A colossal squid
D) A giant octopus
- 16. What is the nationality of Ned Land, the harpooner in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) American
B) Canadian
C) British
D) French
- 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 find treasure and riches
C) To become the ruler of the seas
D) To conquer new lands
- 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 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) Electricity
B) Steam
C) Wind
D) Solar energy
- 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) Aegean whirlpool
C) Scylla
D) Charybdis
- 22. Which French oceanographer is repeatedly mentioned in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Louis Antoine de Bougainville
B) Matthew Fontaine Maury
C) Jean-Baptiste Charcot
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) Negotiates with it
C) Escapes from it
D) Captures it
- 24. What is the name of the French submarine that inspired Verne's depiction of Nautilus?
A) Plongeur
B) Poseidon
C) Leviathan
D) Nautilus
- 25. Who was responsible for the first English translation of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Reverend Lewis Page Mercier
B) Anthony Bonner
C) Walter James Miller
D) David Coward
- 26. Which translation of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' included an introduction by Ray Bradbury?
A) The 1966 Washington Square Press edition
B) The 1962 Bantam Classics edition translated by Anthony Bonner
C) The 1976 Thomas Y. Crowel Company edition
D) The 1998 Oxford University 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 2000 Project Gutenberg translation
B) The 1993 Naval Institute Press edition
C) The 2017 Penguin Classics edition translated by David Coward
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) 100 illustrations
D) 20 illustrations
- 30. Who criticized 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' in 1961?
A) Malaurie Guillaume
B) Mercier
C) Jules Verne
D) Theodore L. Thomas
- 31. According to the 1993 translation notes, whose responsibility were the errors noted by Thomas?
A) Mercier's translation
B) Malaurie Guillaume
C) Jules Verne's original text
D) Theodore L. Thomas
- 32. In 2023, who presented Nemo as the first eco-terrorist?
A) Jules Verne
B) Malaurie Guillaume
C) Mercier
D) Theodore L. Thomas
- 33. What term did Malaurie Guillaume use to describe Nemo in 2023?
A) First figure of ecological radicalism
B) Visionary scientist
C) Technological pioneer
D) Underwater explorer
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