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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Fourth Dimension?
(a) Time.
(b) Depth.
(c) Width.
(d) Length.

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

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

4. In which point of view is Chapter 2 told?
(a) Third person omniscient.
(b) First person, from the Time Traveler's point of view.
(c) Third person, limited to Hillyer's point of view.
(d) First person, from Hillyer's point of view.

5. In Chapter 3, which of the following things is wrong with the time machine when the Time Traveler returns?
(a) Cracked ivory lever.
(b) Neither of these things.
(c) Both of these things.
(d) Shattered quartz crystal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of meat are they eating at the second dinner?

2. What color are the Time Traveler's eyes?

3. Which of the characters says that he has never heard of the Fourth Dimension?

4. What is the air temperature in this far future?

5. Inside the machine, it seems as if the housekeeper walks from one end of the room to the other like what object?

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