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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 an expectant mother.
(b) To a frisky kitten.
(c) To a suicide.
(d) To a newborn baby.

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

3. Compared to the children the Time Traveler is used to, what does he estimate the intellectual age of the Eloi to be?
(a) About 3 years old.
(b) About 5 years old.
(c) About 7 years old.
(d) About 10 years old.

4. The Time Traveler recognizes the landscape of the Eloi as the valley of what river from his own time?
(a) The Floss.
(b) The Danube.
(c) The Mississippi.
(d) The Thames.

5. What is the Time Traveler smoking?
(a) A cigar.
(b) A cigarette.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A pipe.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which point of view is Chapter 2 told?

2. What does one use to operate the model?

3. Which character is described in Chapter 2 as having "more than a touch of whim among his elements"?

4. Where does the Time Traveler live?

5. What does the Time Traveler judge his pace in the machine to be?

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