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Journey to the Center of the Earth Part 1 Ch. 1-23

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the protagonist of the story?

a)

Jules Verne

b)

Professor

c)

Tiny Tim

d)

Mickey Mouse

2.

Who got sea sick on the ship?

a)

Gretchen

b)

Henry

c)

Professor

d)

Captain

3.

Who was their tour guide?

a)

Hansel

b)

Harry

c)

Hans

d)

Happy

4.

What is the capital of Iceland?

a)

Berlin

b)

Reykjavik

c)

London

d)

Washington DC

5.

Where does the story "Journey to the Center of the Earth" begin?

a)

Germany

b)

France

c)

Korea

d)

China

6.
Is Journey to the Center of the Earth fiction or nonfiction?
a)
Non fiction
b)
Fiction
7.

What is a theme?

a)

problem in the story

b)

character in the story

c)

message or moral

d)

main idea

8.

What is the theme of Journey to the Center of the Earth?

a)

Love is everything

b)

War is inevitable

c)

Perseverance against all odds

d)

Fear is not a thing

9.

Who is Professor Lidenbrock?

a)

famous clown

b)

famous scientist

c)

famous actor

d)

famous singer

10.

What did Professor Lidenbrock find?

a)

old vase

b)

old shoe

c)

old book

d)

old map

11.

What did he find in the old item?

a)

a piece of parchment with something written on it.

b)

bookmark

c)

receipt

d)

hymn

12.

Why could they not read the paper?

a)

It was in pig latin

b)

It was in Russian

c)

It was in Runic

d)

It was in Latin

13.

What did they have to do to decipher the message?

a)

read the message upside down

b)

read the message in a bottle

c)

read the message backwards

d)

read the message in French

14.

What is Snaeffels?

a)

active volcano

b)

inactive crater

c)

extinct volcano

d)

active crater

15.

Where is Snaeffels located?

a)

Artic

b)

Africa

c)

Iceland

d)

North Pole

16.

What is Scartaris?

a)

Name of volcano crater

b)

Name of volcano peak

c)

Name of volcano eruption

d)

Name of volcano center

17.

What do scientists believe about going deep into the center of the earth?

a)

Deeper you go the colder it gets

b)

Deeper you go the windier it gets

c)

Deeper you go the icier it gets

d)

Deeper you go the hotter it gets

18.

First they traveled on a train to...

a)

Copefield

b)

Copperhead

c)

Copeland

d)

Copenhagen

19.

How long had Mt. Snaeffels been extinct?

a)

300 years

b)

1000 years

c)

5000 years

d)

500 years

20.

Who was their tour guide?

a)

Hansel

b)

Harry

c)

Hans

d)

Happy

21.

Who wanted to burn the parchment so that no one could find out about the message that Arne wrote?

a)

Martha

b)

Hans

c)

Axel

d)

Grauben

22.

Apart from the professor, who else was thrilled by the expedition?

a)

Martha

b)

Hans

c)

Axel

d)

Grauben

23.

What does the callends of July mean

a)

End of May

b)

End of June

c)

End of July

d)

End of August

24.

His nose is like a knife.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

25.

What does a bibliophile like?

a)

video games

b)

text messages

c)

books

26.

What does manuscript mean?

a)

written by hand

b)

typed

27.

A polyglot knows many

a)

songs

b)

stories

c)

languages

28.

what is a cipher?

a)

a poem

b)

a key to unlock the code

29.

What is the name of the famous scientist that left the code?

a)

Sean Anderson

b)

Arne Saknuessemm

30.

What kind of scientist was Arne Saknuessemm?

a)

meteorologist

b)

astronaut

c)

alchemist

31.

What does jokull mean in Icelandic?

a)

joke

b)

glacier

c)

game

32.

A reference to a famous work in a story is called an

a)

inference

b)

prediction

c)

allusion

33.

Where are most of the books in Iceland?

a)

in the hands of the people

b)

in the library

c)

they don't own any books.

34.

What day was the journey to begin?

a)

March 16

b)

May 16

c)

June 16

d)

July 16

35.

What does boer mean in Icelandic?

a)

tunnel

b)

cave

c)

farmhouse

36.

Lepers are forbidden to marry in Iceland

a)

true

b)

false

37.

What is a rector?

a)

a doctor

b)

a scientist

c)

a priest

38.

How high is Snaeffells peak?

a)

500 ft

b)

50,000 ft

c)

5,000 ft

39.

What landmass is only 35 leagues from Iceland?

a)

Norway

b)

North Pole

c)

Greenland

40.

Whose name was written on a granite rock in the middle of the crater?

a)

Arne Saknuessemm

b)

Neil Armstrong

c)

George Jefferson

41.

On what day did the Professor see the shadow of Scartaris?

a)

May 29

b)

July 29

c)

June 29

d)

August 29

42.

How did the ropes and clothes make it down the hole?

a)

The men carried them

b)

They were thrown over and allowed to drop to the ground below them.

c)

They were tied to a rope and lowered down

43.

What type of mine did they come upon under ground

a)

gold mine

b)

sulfur mine

c)

coal mine

d)

Silver mine

44.

What does a chronometer measure?

a)

length

b)

time

c)

temperature

45.

what type of conflict happens between to characters

a)

internal

b)

external

46.

If a character does not change throughout a story, they are said to be...

a)

static

b)

dynamic

47.

If a character is more than meets the eye, they are said to be a ...

a)

round character

b)

flat character

48.

What is a theme?

a)

Moral or message

b)

main idea

c)

conflct

49.

If a person has a problem fitting into a group, it is said to be a conflict of...

a)

man vs man

b)

man vs self

c)

man vs society

d)

man vs nature

50.

If a character has to struggle with an outside natural force, it is said to be what type of conflict?

a)

man vs self

b)

man vs society

c)

man vs man

d)

man vs nature