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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the framework of the Palace of Green Porcelain made of?
(a) Wood.
(b) Bone.
(c) Metal.
(d) Glass.

2. How have the Morlocks cared for the Time Machine?
(a) They have broken it into pieces.
(b) They have taken out the crystals.
(c) They have oiled and cleaned it.
(d) They have given it a fresh coat of paint.

3. What surprises the Time Traveler when he goes to the White Sphinx to finally reclaim his time machine?
(a) The Sphinx has been moved.
(b) The valve doors are open.
(c) The forest fire singed the doors.
(d) The Sphinx is now green.

4. What, according to the Editor in the Epilogue, is "black and blank [...] a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story"?
(a) The Editor's account of the story.
(b) The Time Traveler's story.
(c) The future.
(d) The present.

5. What is the model of the time machine made out of?
(a) Diamonds.
(b) Just ivory.
(c) Ivory and a crystalline substance.
(d) Iron and bronze.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which best defines the Editor's relationship to the Time Traveler?

2. What does the Time Traveler see after his meal with the Eloi, when he goes outside again to look at the White Sphinx?

3. Approximately how tall are the creatures?

4. Faced with his loathing of the Morlocks, the Time Traveler feels like a what "in a cage"?

5. What, at the end of the chapter about the forest fire, is described as an "overwhelming calamity"?

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