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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

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 power was out.
(c) The time machine broke the lamp.
(d) The Time Traveler put out the fire.

2. Which of the characters actually operates the model of the time machine?
(a) Hillyer.
(b) The Psychologist.
(c) The Medical Man.
(d) The Time Traveler.

3. Which of the following dinner guests was at the second dinner, but NOT at the first?
(a) Filby.
(b) The Very Young Man.
(c) Hillyer.
(d) Blank.

4. What kind of meat are they eating at the second dinner?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Beef.
(c) Pork.
(d) Mutton.

5. With which institution is Professor Simon Newcomb affiliated?
(a) Royal Society of Learned Mathematicians.
(b) New York Mathematical Society.
(c) Royal Society of Magicians.
(d) New York Time Travel Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Time Traveler ask his guests to save for him while he changes?

2. What academic subject is based on misconceptions, according to the Time Traveler?

3. Where does the Time Traveler live?

4. Where does the Psychologist first say the model must have gone?

5. What is the "trick" the Medical Man says the Time Traveler showed them last Christmas?

(see the answer key)

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