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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many Eloi are there in the great hall?
(a) About 75.
(b) Several thousand.
(c) Between 500 and 1000.
(d) A couple hundred.

2. What does the narrator say is his only comfort?
(a) His time machine.
(b) HIs future to come.
(c) His memories.
(d) The flowers.

3. What does the Time Traveler find when he attempts to climb down into one of the Morlocks' shafts or tunnels?
(a) There is a rope to climb.
(b) There is an elevator.
(c) There are metal rods like a ladder.
(d) There are steps cut into the ground.

4. When the Time Traveler returns home in Chapter 12, even he himself wonders if the whole experience was just a what?
(a) Dream.
(b) Fantasy.
(c) False memory.
(d) Hallucination.

5. What, according to the Time Traveler, must be "useless" if nature is appealing to intelligence?
(a) "Intuition and ritual."
(b) "Drive and desire."
(c) "Habit and instinct."
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjectives does Wells employ to describe the Morlocks' hands?

2. When the Time Traveler and Weena are seeking refuge in the Palace of Green Porcelain, what is remarkable about the statue of the faun they find on their way?

3. In which point of view is Chapter 2 told?

4. In Chapter 3, which of the following things is wrong with the time machine when the Time Traveler returns?

5. Which battle does the Psychologist mention, when the men speak of traveling in history to see past battles?

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