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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it dark in the room where the men hear the Time Traveler's story?
(a) The candles were not lit.
(b) The time machine broke the lamp.
(c) The Time Traveler put out the fire.
(d) The power was out.

2. What adjectives does Wells employ to describe the Morlocks' hands?
(a) Soft and little.
(b) Weak and wet.
(c) Brittle and dry
(d) Rigid and sharp.

3. What color are the Time Traveler's eyes?
(a) Grey.
(b) Hazel.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

4. Whom did the narrator meet on Friday at the Linnaeum?
(a) The Provincial Mayor.
(b) The Psychologist.
(c) Filby.
(d) The Medical Man.

5. Discussing the fear of the Eloi during the New Moon, the Time Traveler says that his fear is different than theirs. Why?
(a) He is not afraid of the Morlocks.
(b) He is afraid of the Eloi.
(c) He is not paralyzed by his fear.
(d) He knows he has an escape route.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far into the future has the Time Traveler traveled when the "sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part of the darkling heavens"?

2. Why does the Time Traveler keep the camphor he finds?

3. In one section of the museum, the Time Traveler infers that the hall used artificial illumination from what evidence?

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

5. In which direction is the Palace of Green Porcelain?

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