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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What best describes the "prettiness" of the Eloi, when the Time Traveler first meets them?
(a) Wedgwood-china.
(b) Delft blue.
(c) Dresden-china.
(d) Porcelain dolls.

4. What surprises the Time Traveler when he goes to the White Sphinx to finally reclaim his time machine?
(a) The forest fire singed the doors.
(b) The valve doors are open.
(c) The Sphinx has been moved.
(d) The Sphinx is now green.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the Eloi offer the Time Traveler when he intimates that he did in fact come out of the thunderstorm?

3. What word best describes the Time Traveler's actions just before he realizes that he cannot easily light the matches?

4. What does the Time Traveler say about "the dream of the human intellect"?

5. How have the Morlocks cared for the Time Machine?

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