20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Ch 13&14

1. Where did Captain Nemo obtained the coal that produced their electricity?

• His men mined it from an extinct volcano to make the sodium, for the batteries.

• He obtained it from the bottom of the sea.

• His men mined it from a coal mine that was in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.

• His men went to the neareast island in Argentina that had coal mines, for the batteries in the Nautilius.

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2. When they went to the Antarctic, on March 18th, they reached a wall of ice that could not be broken. How was this called?

• “The bad Barrier”

• “The Volcano Barrier”

• “The Great Ice Barrier!”

• “The hot-Ice Barrier!”

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3. Who was the e first man to step foot on the land surrounding the South Pole?

• Mr. Aaron.

• Land.

• Captain Nemo.

• The Nautilus

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4. After they walked in the South Pole, The Nautilus became trapped in ice. What was Captain's Nemo plan to get out of trouble?

• He asked everybody to start paying.

• He and his men used the Nautilus electric phone asking for help.

• He asked everybody to put on their diving suits in order to push and move away the big piece of ice above the Nautilus.

• His men put on their diving suits and started to work on breaking up the ice where it is thinnest, so the Nautilus could brake it.

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5. Why was it too dangerous for them to stay under the water?

• Because they didn't know how to swim to the surface in case the Nautilus ship would be destroyed by the big blocks of ice.

• Because there wasn’t enough air in the Nautilus ship to keep them alive.

• Because it was very dark and the animals around them were very dangerous, specially the seals and penguins.

• Because it was very cold outside and they could 've died.

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6. Where did they go after the Antarctic?

• They didn't go, they stayed there until a journalist arrived in order to write about the first man who stepped for the first time in the South Pole.

• They went to the equator, and reached it by April 10.

• They went to the North Pole.

• They went to England, becauae they were missing their families a lot.

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