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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the Morlocks' plan fail?
(a) The Time Traveler had a working torch.
(b) The Time Traveler had a gun to fight them.
(c) They did not understand the nature of the Time Machine.
(d) It turned out that they were afraid of the dark.

2. What do the Morlocks plan to do with the Time Traveler?
(a) They planned to travel into the past with him.
(b) They planned to trap him in the dark.
(c) They planned to let him go.
(d) They planned to make him eat Eloi.

3. What, according to the Time Traveler, must be "useless" if nature is appealing to intelligence?
(a) "Intuition and ritual."
(b) "Drive and desire."
(c) "Habit and instinct."
(d) None of these.

4. Why does the Time Traveler remove something from the machine when he meets the Eloi and prepares to leave the machine?
(a) So the Eloi cannot figure out how to build their own.
(b) So it cannot be operated.
(c) So he can travel back in time without the machine.
(d) So the Eloi will not sell the time machine on the black market.

5. How does the Time Traveler attempt to communicate the concept of time to the first Eloi he meets?
(a) He looks at his watch.
(b) He uses math, the universal language.
(c) He lectures them on the Fourth Dimension.
(d) He points to the sun.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. Discussing the fear of the Eloi during the New Moon, the Time Traveler says that his fear is different than theirs. Why?

5. In the forest in Chapter 7, whom does Wells describe as the "dainty ones"?

(see the answer key)

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