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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of the flower does the Medical Man find odd?
(a) The stem.
(b) The gynaeceum.
(c) The petals.
(d) The scent.

2. What objects were the Morlocks attempting to pry out of the Time Traveler's fingers while they were struggling in the dark?
(a) The torch.
(b) The pipe.
(c) The levers.
(d) The matches.

3. How many times did the Time Traveler see "Morlocks put their heads down in a kind of agony and rush into the flames"?
(a) Seven.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

4. In the forest in Chapter 7, whom does Wells describe as the "dainty ones"?
(a) Giant butterflies.
(b) Ancient humans.
(c) The Morlock.
(d) The Eloi.

5. What, at the end of the chapter about the forest fire, is described as an "overwhelming calamity"?
(a) The destruction of the Morlocks.
(b) The destruction of the forest.
(c) The destruction of the Time Machine.
(d) Weena's death.

6. What does the Time Traveler refer to when he says "wilderness of rotting paper"?
(a) The forest exhibition.
(b) The museum bookshop.
(c) The portrait gallery.
(d) The library.

7. What object does the Time Traveler refer to as his "mace"?
(a) A length of pipe.
(b) A broken lever.
(c) A baseball bat.
(d) A cudgel.

8. To what far future creature does the following description apply: "its many legs moving slowly and uncertainly, its big claws swaying, its long antennae like carters' whips"?
(a) Cockroaches.
(b) Crabs.
(c) Scorpions.
(d) Butterflies.

9. While the Time Traveler notices that the constellations are different in the night sky as he and Weena bed down in the forest, what is the one celestial feature that is seemingly unchanged?
(a) The Aurora Borealis.
(b) The Big Dipper.
(c) The Milky Way.
(d) The North Star.

10. In the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels, what color is the one evidence of animal life he sees?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

11. In one section of the museum, the Time Traveler infers that the hall used artificial illumination from what evidence?
(a) Fireplaces.
(b) Broken white globes.
(c) Extension cords.
(d) Torches.

12. In the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels, what is one thing that's missing?
(a) Ice.
(b) Sounds.
(c) Water.
(d) Life.

13. In Chapter 10, Wells describes the Eloi's "feeble prettiness," which is compared to which characteristics of the Morlocks?
(a) "Scientific know-how."
(b) "Mechanical industry."
(c) "Technological improvement."
(d) "Ghastly beastiness."

14. What is the Time Traveler planning to make when he says, in Chapter 7, "to procure some means of fire."
(a) A coal fire.
(b) A torch.
(c) A forest fire.
(d) A camp fire.

15. What does the Time Traveler realize when he picks Weena up and slings her over his shoulder?
(a) That Weena is dead.
(b) That the fire is spreading.
(c) That they are surrounded my Morlocks in all directions.
(d) That he has lost his way in the forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Time Traveler intend to go once he is armed with things he found at the museum?

2. Why is it significant that the moon is starting to wane in Chapter 7?

3. When the Time Traveler returns home, whom does he see walk in reverse across his laboratory?

4. What is the Editor's reaction to the Time Traveler's story?

5. Why did the Morlocks' plan fail?

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