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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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?
(a) The North Star.
(b) The Aurora Borealis.
(c) The Big Dipper.
(d) The Milky Way.

4. Why does the Time Traveler claim not to be afraid of the first Eloi he meets, even though they are touching him?
(a) He can understand their language and that they say they mean him no harm.
(b) He has superior weapons, so is not worred.
(c) They look so frail he thinks he could dispatch several at once.
(d) The Eloi give him welcoming gifts.

5. What objects were the Morlocks attempting to pry out of the Time Traveler's fingers while they were struggling in the dark?
(a) The torch.
(b) The pipe.
(c) The levers.
(d) The matches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Time Traveler planning to make when he says, in Chapter 7, "to procure some means of fire."

2. The Time Traveler assumes that his voice is too what for the Eloi?

3. Which group of people is compared to the Carolingian kings in Chapter 7?

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

5. Compared to the children the Time Traveler is used to, what does he estimate the intellectual age of the Eloi to be?

(see the answer key)

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