Characters
This character is described as exact, private, and highly methodical before the journey begins.
Who is Phileas Fogg?
Fogg’s 80-day journey begins in this European capital.
What is London?
Fogg makes his famous wager at this club.
What is the Reform Club?
The wager becomes possible because changes in transportation make the world seem this.
What is “smaller”?
This term means evidence or information that may suggest guilt but does not prove it.
What is suspicion?
Passepartout describes Fogg almost as this because of his precise routine.
What is a machine?
This canal helps connect the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea and speeds travel toward India.
What is the Suez Canal?
Fix recognizes that Fogg resembles the description of this person.
Who is the suspected bank robber?
Fix wants to follow Fogg because he believes Fogg’s journey may actually be this.
What is an escape from the law?
This word means a method or vehicle for transportation.
What is conveyance?
This character’s friendly conversation creates dramatic irony because readers know something he does not.
Who is Passepartout?
Fogg’s passport is stamped here, which helps document his route but also helps Fix track him.
What is Suez?
The train reaches a point where passengers discover this major problem.
What is that the railway is unfinished?
The same travel record helps Fogg and Fix in different ways: Fogg uses it to track time, while Fix uses it for this.
What is tracking/investigating Fogg?
Foreseen means something has been done this way before it happens.
What is anticipated/predicted?
Fix and Fogg both pay close attention to time, but for opposite reasons. Explain one difference.
What is Fogg wants to stay on schedule, while Fix wants time to get a warrant/catch him?
The unfinished track creates a gap between Kholby and this destination.
What is Allahabad?
When the railroad ends, Fogg does not complain; instead, he does this.
What is immediately looks for another solution/means of transportation?
Passepartout’s temple mistake matters later because it creates this kind of plot relationship.
What is cause and effect/consequence?
Premature best describes the newspaper claim about the railroad because the railway was announced before this.
What is it was actually complete/ready?
By Chapter 11, which trait is most strongly supported by Fogg’s response to interruptions: reckless, adaptable, or careless? Defend with evidence.
What is adaptable, supported by his calm search for another route/elephant?
Why is Suez strategically important to both Fogg and Fix?
What is it is a major travel checkpoint on Fogg’s route and a place Fix can intercept/track him?
Explain how one event in Chapters 5–8 creates a second plot running alongside Fogg’s journey.
What is Fix begins investigating/following Fogg because he suspects him of the bank robbery?
Why is the unfinished railway especially important to the story’s larger idea about technology?
What is technology makes travel faster, but plans and systems are still imperfect/unreliable?
Explain the meaning of “the world has grown smaller” without taking it literally.
What is improved transportation makes distant places faster/easier to reach even though physical distance is unchanged?