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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the "trick" the Medical Man says the Time Traveler showed them last Christmas?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A disappearing rabbit.
(c) A spaceship.
(d) An alien autopsy.

2. What academic subject is based on misconceptions, according to the Time Traveler?
(a) Algebra.
(b) Calculus.
(c) Arithmetic.
(d) Geometry.

3. To what does the Time Traveler compare his excitement/anxiety when he is about to travel in the machine for the first time?
(a) To a frisky kitten.
(b) To a suicide.
(c) To a newborn baby.
(d) To an expectant mother.

4. Why is it dark in the room where the men hear the Time Traveler's story?
(a) The power was out.
(b) The Time Traveler put out the fire.
(c) The candles were not lit.
(d) The time machine broke the lamp.

5. What "rises and falls" while the Time Traveler is observing from inside the time machine?
(a) Flowers.
(b) A winged sphinx.
(c) The tide.
(d) Buildings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, does the Time Traveler imagine, the Eloi all want to touch him?

2. What year does the Time Traveler estimate he has traveled to before he actually reports what exact year the machine recorded?

3. In Chapter 3, which of the following things is wrong with the time machine when the Time Traveler returns?

4. Which of the characters reads the note left by the Time Traveler?

5. What do the Eloi wear on their heads?

(see the answer key)

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