1 Authorities' hopes are shaped by nautili mercenaries devils poets 2 Who is entrapped by teatime fame? Authorities Writers Mercenaries Poets 3 Commuters are described as authoritative friendly comfortable dull 4 The shell is heavy broken thin opulent 5 The souvenir of hope is perishable raw comfortable authoritative 6 The outside is pink glossy white dull white gray 7 The inner surface is ragged matte glossy dull 8 When does the nautilus guard her eggs? Night Day Day and night Never 9 What does she not do until the eggs hatch? Sleep Eat Speak Move 10 How many arms does she have? 10 2 8 4 11 What fish is she compared to? A catfish A piranha A devilfish A clownfish 12 What does she do for the eggs? Crushes them Hides them Separates them Ignores them 13 She refers to her eggs as spheres freight packages babies 14 What Greek hero does the poet mention? Ajax Hercules Paris Achilles 15 What does the crab do to Hercules? Kills him Inspires him Devours him Hinders him 16 When the eggs are freed, they die they break the shell they leave the shell intact they make their own shells 17 What creature's nest does the poet mention? Bird Wasp Rat Bee 18 The chiton-folds are compared to the glossy sea Hercules and his labor the Parthenon horse the wasp nest 19 What is "the only fortress / strong enough to trust to"? Mother Family Love The sea 20 The mother's love is nurturing intense obsessive all of these 21 The nautilus makes her shell for the crab the authorities the eggs the commuters 22 What best describes the nautilus? Indifferent Dedicated Reserved Morose 23 The shell is depicted as capacious heavy ragged fragile 24 The following are themes of the poem except religion maternal love endurance the sea 25 The eggs never hatch are watched intensively resist against their mother's love do not break the shell