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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Time Traveler find when he attempts to climb down into one of the Morlocks' shafts or tunnels?
(a) There are steps cut into the ground.
(b) There is an elevator.
(c) There is a rope to climb.
(d) There are metal rods like a ladder.

2. Why is the Time Traveler worried about stopping?
(a) He fears he might hurt a passerby.
(b) He fears he might fall off the machine.
(c) He fears he might damage the time machine and be stuck in the future.
(d) He fears he might hit something.

3. What is the Fourth Dimension?
(a) Depth.
(b) Time.
(c) Length.
(d) Width.

4. What does the Time Traveler judge his pace in the machine to be?
(a) A decade an second.
(b) A season an a milisecond.
(c) An hour a day.
(d) A year a minute.

5. The Time Traveler remarks in Chapter 4 that the first Eloi he sees has a strange absence of what instinct?
(a) Fear.
(b) Anger.
(c) Aggression.
(d) Curiosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how tall are the creatures?

2. What is the name of the housekeeper?

3. Where does the Psychologist first say the model must have gone?

4. What is the texture of the Eloi's hair?

5. How did he find out her name was Weena?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Time Traveler eventually stop the machine?

2. According to the Time Traveler, what happened when he sat in the Time Machine and pressed the lever?

3. What does the Time Traveler see when he stops the machine in the far future in Chapter 3?

4. In addition to the flowers, what other piece of tangible, physical evidence seems to offer some proof to the dinner guests that the Time Traveler may have actually traveled in time?

5. How did the Time Traveler feel when he first got out of the time machine in the far future in Chapter 3?

6. What is the narrator's outlook on the future at the end of the novel?

7. What makes The Time Traveler push the lever again and leave the time period with the two creatures and the large, red sun?

8. Inside the dark tunnel he explores in the Palace, the Time Traveler finds a carcass. What is it and what does this carcass foreshadow?

9. What does the Time Traveler find when he begins to explore the Palace of Green Porcelain in the Southwest?

10. What political system is discussed in Chapter 1 as a possible future for humanity and why has Wells included it?

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