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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What color is the animal the Time Traveler sees in the night on the way to look for his missing time machine?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Brown.
(d) Black.

3. What is the first thing the Time Traveler drinks at the second dinner?
(a) Scotch.
(b) Water.
(c) Champagne.
(d) Beer.

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

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

6. Why does the Time Traveler remove something from the machine when he meets the Eloi and prepares to leave the machine?
(a) So the Eloi cannot figure out how to build their own.
(b) So he can travel back in time without the machine.
(c) So the Eloi will not sell the time machine on the black market.
(d) So it cannot be operated.

7. What does the Time Traveler see after his meal with the Eloi, when he goes outside again to look at the White Sphinx?
(a) He sees that another Time Machine is parked next to his own.
(b) He sees a forest fire.
(c) He sees that the Time Machine is missing.
(d) He sees Morlocks.

8. How much does the Editor offer to pay for the Time Traveler's story?
(a) A shilling a line.
(b) A pound a word.
(c) A penny a word.
(d) A pound a paragraph.

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

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

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

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

13. Which, of the following metals, is mentioned as part of the Time Machine?
(a) Gold.
(b) Iron.
(c) Brass.
(d) Nickel.

14. Which character is described in Chapter 2 as having "more than a touch of whim among his elements"?
(a) Filby.
(b) The Time Traveler.
(c) Hillyer.
(d) The Psychologist.

15. The Time Traveler remarks in Chapter 4 that the first Eloi he sees has a strange absence of what instinct?
(a) Aggression.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Anger.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Approximately how tall are the creatures?

3. What does the Time Traveler find when he attempts to climb down into one of the Morlocks' shafts or tunnels?

4. In what type of clothing is the group of figures the Time Traveler sees clad?

5. To what does the Time Traveler compare his excitement/anxiety when he is about to travel in the machine for the first time?

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