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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, at the end of the chapter about the forest fire, is described as an "overwhelming calamity"?
(a) The destruction of the Morlocks.
(b) Weena's death.
(c) The destruction of the Time Machine.
(d) The destruction of the forest.

2. According to the Time Traveler, how long did it take to make the model of the time machine?
(a) Two years.
(b) Two months.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Twenty years.

3. 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 North Star.
(c) The Big Dipper.
(d) The Milky Way.

4. The Time Traveler assumes that his voice is too what for the Eloi?
(a) Rough and loud.
(b) Harsh and deep.
(c) Sonorous and scathing.
(d) Biting and caustic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Editor's reaction to the Time Traveler's story?

2. What, according to the Time Traveler, must be "useless" if nature is appealing to intelligence?

3. The Time Traveler compares the Morlocks to which kind of monkey or ape?

4. What is the Editor smoking, if anything, in Chapter 12?

5. What is happening to the Time Traveler's memory in Chapter 12, when he returns home?

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