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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Time Traveler judge his pace in the machine to be?
(a) An hour a day.
(b) A year a minute.
(c) A season an a milisecond.
(d) A decade an second.

2. To what does this description apply: "a vast dome glowing with a dull heat, and now and then suffering a momentary extinction," in Chapter 11?
(a) Mars.
(b) The Green Palace.
(c) Venus.
(d) The sun.

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

4. While the Time Traveler notices that the constellations are different in the night sky as he and Weena bed down in the forest, what is the one celestial feature that is seemingly unchanged?
(a) The Aurora Borealis.
(b) The Big Dipper.
(c) The North Star.
(d) The Milky Way.

5. To what "zoological" specimen does the Time Traveler compare the color of the Morlocks' bodies?
(a) Worms.
(b) Crabs.
(c) Lizards.
(d) Moths.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group of people is compared to the Carolingian kings in Chapter 7?

2. In Chapter 11, in the even farther future, what characterizes the oceans?

3. Of what metal is the pedestal of the Sphinx made?

4. How far into the future has the Time Traveler traveled when the "sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part of the darkling heavens"?

5. The Time Traveler decides that the museum must be in the location of which part of London from his own time?

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