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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the characters actually operates the model of the time machine?
(a) The Medical Man.
(b) The Time Traveler.
(c) Hillyer.
(d) The Psychologist.

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

3. Where does the Time Traveler live?
(a) Tubingen.
(b) Glasgow.
(c) Cardiff.
(d) Richmond.

4. Which of the characters reads the note left by the Time Traveler?
(a) The Medical Man.
(b) The Psychology.
(c) Filby.
(d) The Very Young Man.

5. The narrator mentions that if another character had shown them the time machine, they would not be as skeptical as they were of the Time Traveler. Which other character does he mention?
(a) Filby.
(b) The Medical Man.
(c) The Provincial Mayor.
(d) The Very Young Man.

6. What is the term for a problem in time travel or a contradiction of the timeline mentioned by the Psychologist in Chapter 1?
(a) Paraclete.
(b) Orthodoxy.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Contraindication.

7. Of what foodstuff does the diet of the Eloi consist?
(a) Poultry.
(b) Insects.
(c) Vegetables.
(d) Fruit.

8. What does the Time Traveler ask his guests to save for him while he changes?
(a) Salad.
(b) Greenbean casserole.
(c) Meat.
(d) Dessert.

9. What "rises and falls" while the Time Traveler is observing from inside the time machine?
(a) Buildings.
(b) A winged sphinx.
(c) The tide.
(d) Flowers.

10. What is the Fourth Dimension?
(a) Depth.
(b) Width.
(c) Length.
(d) Time.

11. On what day of the week did the guests come for dinner?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Saturday.

12. What do the Eloi offer the Time Traveler when he intimates that he did in fact come out of the thunderstorm?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Berries.
(d) Nuts.

13. What does the Time Traveler remove from the time machine when he prepares to follow the Eloi?
(a) The saddle.
(b) Dials.
(c) Levers.
(d) Knobs.

14. Why does the Time Traveler think that it was not the Eloi who moved the time machine?
(a) He thinks that the Sphinx came alive and swallowed it.
(b) He thinks they were busy eating.
(c) He thinks they are too weak.
(d) He thinks that one of the Eloi has traveled back in time with it.

15. What are the adjectives Wells uses to describe the language of the Eloi?
(a) Strange, rapid and soft.
(b) Weird, bizarre and rich.
(c) Strange, sweet and liquid.
(d) Sickening, gutteral and anxious.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what "zoological" specimen does the Time Traveler compare the color of the Morlocks' bodies?

2. According to the Time Traveler, how long did it take to make the model of the time machine?

3. What does the Time Traveler judge his pace in the machine to be?

4. Compared to the children the Time Traveler is used to, what does he estimate the intellectual age of the Eloi to be?

5. Inside the machine, it seems as if the housekeeper walks from one end of the room to the other like what object?

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