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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What allows him to escape the Morlocks?
(a) Setting a piece of paper on fire.
(b) Weena comes with reinforcements.
(c) His sidearm.
(d) Shouting as loudly as he can.

2. What does the narrator say about the Time Traveler at the end of Chapter 12?
(a) That he went to save Weena.
(b) That he has never returned.
(c) That he patented his invention.
(d) That he sold the machine.

3. What best describes the animal life the Time Traveler sees in the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels?
(a) Finned.
(b) Three-toed.
(c) Tentacled.
(d) Winged.

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

5. Why does the Time Traveler refer to the "abominable desolation" of the far future in Chapter 11?
(a) Thin air.
(b) Monster Crabs.
(c) Poisonous-looking plants.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels, what color is the one evidence of animal life he sees?

2. To what does the Time Traveler compare his excitement/anxiety when he is about to travel in the machine for the first time?

3. Which of the characters actually operates the model of the time machine?

4. What "rises and falls" while the Time Traveler is observing from inside the time machine?

5. What adjective does the Time Traveler use to describe the hair color of the Morlocks?

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