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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it significant that the moon is starting to wane in Chapter 7?
(a) Because the Morlocks feed off lunar energy.
(b) Because the nights will be darker.
(c) None of the above.
(d) All of the above.

2. Why cannot Weena help the Time Traveler make out or interpret the inscription he finds in the Palace of Green Porcelain?
(a) Because Weena was a bad student of history.
(b) Because Weena does not speak any language at all.
(c) Because Weena did not want to.
(d) Because she is illiterate/has no written language.

3. What characterizes the thirty or forty Morlocks on the hill, watching the fire rage toward them?
(a) They are on fire.
(b) They are helpless.
(c) They are sorry for killing.
(d) They are hungry for Eloi.

4. In Chapter 11, when the Time Traveler has traveled even farther into the future, what has happened to the moon?
(a) It has been colonized.
(b) It is orbiting closer to the Earth.
(c) It has disappeared.
(d) It has turned blue.

5. Why does the Time Traveler have trouble lighting matches in Chapter 10?
(a) They are supposed to light on the box.
(b) He drops them.
(c) They are wet.
(d) He could not find them in his pockets.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Time Traveler sees the river and estuary from the point of view of the Palace of Green Porcelain, what does he think of for the first time?

2. What do the Morlocks plan to do with the Time Traveler?

3. To what insect does the Time Traveler compare the Morlocks repeatedly in Chapter 7?

4. What, according to the Time Traveler, must be "useless" if nature is appealing to intelligence?

5. Faced with his loathing of the Morlocks, the Time Traveler feels like a what "in a cage"?

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