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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 11, in the even farther future, what characterizes the oceans?
(a) There is only fresh water.
(b) There are giant sharks.
(c) They are acidic.
(d) There are no waves or breakers.

2. In Chapter 11, when the Time Traveler has traveled even farther into the future, what has happened to the moon?
(a) It has disappeared.
(b) It is orbiting closer to the Earth.
(c) It has turned blue.
(d) It has been colonized.

3. What are the objects/things that Wells describes with the word "carbuncles"?
(a) The Morlocks' eyes.
(b) Weena's eyes.
(c) The lever from his time machine.
(d) The bright red stars.

4. What part of the flower does the Medical Man find odd?
(a) The stem.
(b) The petals.
(c) The scent.
(d) The gynaeceum.

5. What does the Time Traveler find in the great hall of the museum?
(a) Old computers.
(b) Priceless antiques.
(c) Bones.
(d) Paintings.

6. What is happening to the Time Traveler's memory in Chapter 12, when he returns home?
(a) None of the above.
(b) It is fading.
(c) It is becoming more vivid.
(d) It is generating false images.

7. What does the Time Traveler plan to use to illuminate the woods?
(a) Weena's flashlight.
(b) The lights on the time machine.
(c) Fire.
(d) The Moon.

8. How have the Morlocks cared for the Time Machine?
(a) They have given it a fresh coat of paint.
(b) They have taken out the crystals.
(c) They have broken it into pieces.
(d) They have oiled and cleaned it.

9. Why does the Time Traveler presume that the Morlocks are good climbers?
(a) Because they nest in the trees.
(b) Because he saw them scale the Palace.
(c) Because of their wells.
(d) Because they have five sets of claws.

10. Why is Weena unable to walk in the forest?
(a) She falls asleep.
(b) She is injured.
(c) She faints.
(d) She wants to die.

11. In the dark of the forest, how does the Time Traveler know that there are Morlocks near them?
(a) Both of the above.
(b) "Queer sounds" in the woods
(c) A tug on his coat.
(d) Neither of the above.

12. What does the Time Traveler refer to when he says "wilderness of rotting paper"?
(a) The library.
(b) The museum bookshop.
(c) The portrait gallery.
(d) The forest exhibition.

13. What does the Time Traveler tell his guests is the only difference in the Time Machine when he returns home?
(a) That it is in the opposite corner of the room.
(b) That is is damaged.
(c) That it needs to be repaired.
(d) That it is still in the future.

14. Approximately what time is it, when the Time Traveler returns home, according to the journalist?
(a) One o'clock.
(b) Eleven o'clock.
(c) Three o'clock.
(d) Nine o-clock.

15. How does the Time Traveler describe being tackled by a group of Morlocks?
(a) Like being trapped in a viper pit.
(b) Like being caught in spider's web.
(c) Like being hunted by lions.
(d) Like being swallowed by a whale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Editor's reaction to the Time Traveler's story?

2. What is the Editor smoking, if anything, in Chapter 12?

3. While the Time Traveler notices that the constellations are different in the night sky as he and Weena bed down in the forest, what is the one celestial feature that is seemingly unchanged?

4. What characterizes the thirty or forty Morlocks on the hill, watching the fire rage toward them?

5. Faced with his loathing of the Morlocks, the Time Traveler feels like a what "in a cage"?

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