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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 significant that the moon is starting to wane in Chapter 7?
(a) Because the nights will be darker.
(b) Because the Morlocks feed off lunar energy.
(c) None of the above.
(d) All of the above.

2. What are the animals the Time Traveler finds in the farther future in Chapter 11?
(a) Butterflies and crabs.
(b) Snakes and shrimp.
(c) Mosquitoes and rabbits.
(d) Cockroaches and eels.

3. How does the Time Traveler describe being tackled by a group of Morlocks?
(a) Like being trapped in a viper pit.
(b) Like being hunted by lions.
(c) Like being swallowed by a whale.
(d) Like being caught in spider's web.

4. What year does the Time Traveler say the dials on his machine recorded?
(a) 802701.
(b) 800001.
(c) 8027.
(d) 89271.

5. When the Time Traveler sees an animal in the night, what does he take it for?
(a) An Eloi.
(b) A small deer.
(c) A goat.
(d) A rabbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what foodstuff does the diet of the Eloi consist?

2. What does the Time Traveler see after his meal with the Eloi, when he goes outside again to look at the White Sphinx?

3. How does the Time Traveler describe the feeling of the Eloi touching him?

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

5. Why is it dark in the room where the men hear the Time Traveler's story?

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