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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Curiosity.
(d) Fear.

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

3. How many Eloi are in the first group the Time Traveler meets soon after he lands?
(a) Just 3.
(b) Over a thousand.
(c) 8 or 10.
(d) 80 or 100.

4. What do the Eloi offer the Time Traveler when he intimates that he did in fact come out of the thunderstorm?
(a) Nuts.
(b) Berries.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Flowers.

5. The Time Traveler assumes that his voice is too what for the Eloi?
(a) Biting and caustic.
(b) Harsh and deep.
(c) Sonorous and scathing.
(d) Rough and loud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Time Traveler presume that the Morlocks are good climbers?

2. What does the Time Traveler remove from the time machine when he prepares to follow the Eloi?

3. Why does the Time Traveler claim not to be afraid of the first Eloi he meets, even though they are touching him?

4. What surprises the Time Traveler when he goes to the White Sphinx to finally reclaim his time machine?

5. What are the adjectives Wells uses to describe the language of the Eloi?

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