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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what day of the week did the guests come for dinner?
(a) Friday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Thursday.

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

3. 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?
(a) The Very Young Man.
(b) Filby.
(c) The Provincial Mayor.
(d) The Medical Man.

4. What frightens the Time Traveler badly enough to make him flee the underground lair of the Morlocks?
(a) He hears screams.
(b) He feels them grabbing him and touching him.
(c) He feels things slithering over his feet.
(d) He smells fear.

5. Why does the Time Traveler think that it was not the Eloi who moved the time machine?
(a) He thinks they are too weak.
(b) He thinks that the Sphinx came alive and swallowed it.
(c) He thinks that one of the Eloi has traveled back in time with it.
(d) He thinks they were busy eating.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which part of the Time Traveler's body has a half-healed cut on it when he returns to the second dinner?

2. What does the Time Traveler describe the first Eloi he sees as?

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

4. In what type of clothing is the group of figures the Time Traveler sees clad?

5. Which, of the following metals, is mentioned as part of the Time Machine?

(see the answer key)

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