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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What "rises and falls" while the Time Traveler is observing from inside the time machine?
(a) Buildings.
(b) A winged sphinx.
(c) Flowers.
(d) The tide.

2. Which character is described in Chapter 2 as having "more than a touch of whim among his elements"?
(a) Hillyer.
(b) Filby.
(c) The Time Traveler.
(d) The Psychologist.

3. What, at the end of the chapter about the forest fire, is described as an "overwhelming calamity"?
(a) The destruction of the Time Machine.
(b) The destruction of the forest.
(c) Weena's death.
(d) The destruction of the Morlocks.

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

5. How much does the Editor offer to pay for the Time Traveler's story?
(a) A pound a word.
(b) A penny a word.
(c) A pound a paragraph.
(d) A shilling a line.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Time Traveler recognizes the landscape of the Eloi as the valley of what river from his own time?

2. What allows him to escape the Morlocks?

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?

4. Why is the Time Traveler worried about stopping?

5. In Chapter 10, Wells describes the Eloi's "feeble prettiness," which is compared to which characteristics of the Morlocks?

(see the answer key)

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