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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Time Traveler make friends with Weena?
(a) He saved her from the river.
(b) He gave her a ride on the time machine.
(c) He saved her from the Morlocks.
(d) He gave her a garland of flowers.

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

3. How does the Time Traveler determine that the time machine was taken into the base of the Sphinx?
(a) He can see it through the windows in the base of the statue.
(b) He smells burnt metal.
(c) The Eloi read him a note they found.
(d) He finds marks and footprints.

4. What year does the Time Traveler estimate he has traveled to before he actually reports what exact year the machine recorded?
(a) 804000.
(b) 2194.
(c) 8049.
(d) 802000.

5. Why is Weena unable to walk in the forest?
(a) She wants to die.
(b) She falls asleep.
(c) She is injured.
(d) She faints.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "rises and falls" while the Time Traveler is observing from inside the time machine?

2. The Time Traveler remarks in Chapter 4 that the first Eloi he sees has a strange absence of what instinct?

3. Why does the Time Traveler think that it was not the Eloi who moved the time machine?

4. How many times did the Time Traveler see "Morlocks put their heads down in a kind of agony and rush into the flames"?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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