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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Time Traveler sees an animal in the night, what does he take it for?
(a) A rabbit.
(b) A small deer.
(c) An Eloi.
(d) A goat.

2. Remarking on how dirty the Time Traveler's clothes were, the Journalist wonders whether or not the future has any of what object?
(a) Laundromats.
(b) Dust busters.
(c) Showers.
(d) Clothes brushes.

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

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

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

6. What year does the Time Traveler estimate he has traveled to before he actually reports what exact year the machine recorded?
(a) 804000.
(b) 2194.
(c) 8049.
(d) 802000.

7. Of what metal is the pedestal of the Sphinx made?
(a) Bronze.
(b) Silver.
(c) Gold.
(d) Copper.

8. What year does the Time Traveler say the dials on his machine recorded?
(a) 800001.
(b) 8027.
(c) 802701.
(d) 89271.

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

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

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

12. How was the archway into the great hall of the Eloi decorated?
(a) With garlands of flowers.
(b) With faux finish.
(c) With carvings.
(d) With streamers.

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

14. What do the Eloi wear on their heads?
(a) Derby hats.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Turbans.
(d) Skullcaps.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Time Traveler determine that the time machine was taken into the base of the Sphinx?

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

3. What does the Time Traveler smell in the air when he descends into where the Morlocks live?

4. What does the first Eloi appear to be wearing on his feet?

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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