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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the framework of the Palace of Green Porcelain made of?
(a) Bone.
(b) Glass.
(c) Metal.
(d) Wood.

2. Although the Time Traveler finds sulfur in the museum, what additional ingredient for gunpowder does he lack?
(a) Neon.
(b) Sodium.
(c) Cobalt.
(d) Saltpeter.

3. What sound does the Time Traveler hear from deep within the shaft?
(a) Screams.
(b) Subway/Underground train.
(c) Machinery.
(d) Heavy-metal music.

4. What distinguishes the way the Time Traveler walks when he returns during the second dinner?
(a) He is missing a foot.
(b) He runs everywhere very quickly.
(c) He walks with a cane.
(d) He walks with a limp.

5. How does the Time Traveler determine that the time machine was taken into the base of the Sphinx?
(a) The Eloi read him a note they found.
(b) He can see it through the windows in the base of the statue.
(c) He smells burnt metal.
(d) He finds marks and footprints.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Time Traveler ask his guests to save for him while he changes?

2. What does the Time Traveler find when he attempts to climb down into one of the Morlocks' shafts or tunnels?

3. Where does the Time Traveler live?

4. What does the Time Traveler judge his pace in the machine to be?

5. The narrator mentions that if another character had shown them the time machine, they would not be as skeptical as they were of the Time Traveler. Which other character does he mention?

(see the answer key)

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