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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Time Traveler compares the Morlocks to which kind of monkey or ape?
(a) Orangutans.
(b) Mandrills.
(c) Bush babies.
(d) White lemurs.

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

3. In the forest in Chapter 7, whom does Wells describe as the "dainty ones"?
(a) The Morlock.
(b) Giant butterflies.
(c) Ancient humans.
(d) The Eloi.

4. What are the animals the Time Traveler finds in the farther future in Chapter 11?
(a) Cockroaches and eels.
(b) Butterflies and crabs.
(c) Snakes and shrimp.
(d) Mosquitoes and rabbits.

5. What was the Morlocks' plan inside the White Sphinx?
(a) The capture as many Eloi as they could.
(b) To free the Time Traveler.
(c) To steal the time machine and go back in time.
(d) To lure the Time Traveler to his own death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Eloi offer the Time Traveler when he intimates that he did in fact come out of the thunderstorm?

2. What does the narrator say is his only comfort?

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

4. What color are the Time Traveler's eyes?

5. What does the Time Traveler tell his guests is the only difference in the Time Machine when he returns home?

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