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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what material does the Sphinx appear to be made?
(a) White marble.
(b) Green porcelain.
(c) White porcelain.
(d) Green marble.

2. What kind of meat are they eating at the second dinner?
(a) Mutton.
(b) Beef.
(c) Pork.
(d) Chicken.

3. What frightens the Time Traveler badly enough to make him flee the underground lair of the Morlocks?
(a) He hears screams.
(b) He feels things slithering over his feet.
(c) He smells fear.
(d) He feels them grabbing him and touching him.

4. In which point of view is Chapter 2 told?
(a) Third person, limited to Hillyer's point of view.
(b) First person, from the Time Traveler's point of view.
(c) First person, from Hillyer's point of view.
(d) Third person omniscient.

5. Which of the following dinner guests was at the second dinner, but NOT at the first?
(a) Filby.
(b) Hillyer.
(c) The Very Young Man.
(d) Blank.

6. What academic subject is based on misconceptions, according to the Time Traveler?
(a) Arithmetic.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Calculus.
(d) Algebra.

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

8. What adjective does the Time Traveler use to describe the hair color of the Morlocks?
(a) Titian.
(b) Albino.
(c) Strawberry blonde.
(d) Flaxen.

9. Whom did the narrator meet on Friday at the Linnaeum?
(a) The Medical Man.
(b) The Psychologist.
(c) Filby.
(d) The Provincial Mayor.

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

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

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

13. What is the "trick" the Medical Man says the Time Traveler showed them last Christmas?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A disappearing rabbit.
(c) A spaceship.
(d) An alien autopsy.

14. How does the Time Traveler attempt to communicate the concept of time to the first Eloi he meets?
(a) He lectures them on the Fourth Dimension.
(b) He points to the sun.
(c) He uses math, the universal language.
(d) He looks at his watch.

15. 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) The Very Young Man.
(b) Filby.
(c) The Provincial Mayor.
(d) The Medical Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Time Traveler store the object(s) he removes from the time machine?

2. In which direction is the Palace of Green Porcelain?

3. What is the air temperature in this far future?

4. Which part of the Time Traveler's body has a half-healed cut on it when he returns to the second dinner?

5. What color is the first Eloi's tunic?

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