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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How big is the model time machine the Time Traveler shows his guests?
(a) The size of a small clock.
(b) The size of a pocketwatch.
(c) The size of an automobile.
(d) The size of a football.

2. Where does the Time Traveler intend to go once he is armed with things he found at the museum?
(a) The Eloi's great hall.
(b) The forest.
(c) The White Sphinx.
(d) The Morlocks' wells.

3. Why, does the Time Traveler imagine, the Eloi all want to touch him?
(a) To be sure he is real.
(b) To see if he is made of metal.
(c) To see what he will taste like.
(d) To keep warm.

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

5. In the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels, how big is the one evidence of animal life he sees?
(a) Baseball sized.
(b) Football sized.
(c) Basketball sized.
(d) Golfball sized.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why did the Morlocks' plan fail?

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

5. The narrator mentions that if another character had shown them the time machine, they would not be as skeptical as they were of the Time Traveler. Which other character does he mention?

(see the answer key)

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