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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what insect does the Time Traveler compare the Morlocks repeatedly in Chapter 7?
(a) Wasps.
(b) Bees.
(c) Beetles.
(d) Ants.

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

3. How many times did the Time Traveler see "Morlocks put their heads down in a kind of agony and rush into the flames"?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

4. The Time Traveler decides that the museum must be in the location of which part of London from his own time?
(a) Richmond.
(b) The East End.
(c) South Kensington.
(d) Notting Hill.

5. When the Time Traveler returns home in Chapter 12, even he himself wonders if the whole experience was just a what?
(a) Dream.
(b) Fantasy.
(c) Hallucination.
(d) False memory.

6. What object does the Time Traveler refer to as his "mace"?
(a) A cudgel.
(b) A broken lever.
(c) A length of pipe.
(d) A baseball bat.

7. Faced with his loathing of the Morlocks, the Time Traveler feels like a what "in a cage"?
(a) A canary.
(b) A man.
(c) A dog.
(d) A beast.

8. Why did the Morlocks' plan fail?
(a) The Time Traveler had a gun to fight them.
(b) They did not understand the nature of the Time Machine.
(c) It turned out that they were afraid of the dark.
(d) The Time Traveler had a working torch.

9. What does the Time Traveler decide about Weena at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) To bring her into the far future.
(b) To bring her into the past with him.
(c) To stay here and marry her.
(d) To teach her to flight the Morlock.

10. What is the Time Traveler planning to make when he says, in Chapter 7, "to procure some means of fire."
(a) A camp fire.
(b) A coal fire.
(c) A forest fire.
(d) A torch.

11. When the Time Traveler and Weena are seeking refuge in the Palace of Green Porcelain, what is remarkable about the statue of the faun they find on their way?
(a) It is made of wood.
(b) It is made of glass.
(c) It lacks a head.
(d) It is two-headed.

12. Why does the Time Traveler have trouble lighting matches in Chapter 10?
(a) They are supposed to light on the box.
(b) They are wet.
(c) He drops them.
(d) He could not find them in his pockets.

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

14. What do the Morlocks plan to do with the Time Traveler?
(a) They planned to travel into the past with him.
(b) They planned to trap him in the dark.
(c) They planned to make him eat Eloi.
(d) They planned to let him go.

15. What objects were the Morlocks attempting to pry out of the Time Traveler's fingers while they were struggling in the dark?
(a) The pipe.
(b) The matches.
(c) The levers.
(d) The torch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the Time Traveler's clothing fascinated Weena?

2. In Chapter 11, when the Time Traveler has traveled even farther into the future, what has happened to the moon?

3. What, at the end of the chapter about the forest fire, is described as an "overwhelming calamity"?

4. In the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels, how big is the one evidence of animal life he sees?

5. In one section of the museum, the Time Traveler infers that the hall used artificial illumination from what evidence?

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