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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In one section of the museum, the Time Traveler infers that the hall used artificial illumination from what evidence?
(a) Broken white globes.
(b) Extension cords.
(c) Torches.
(d) Fireplaces.

3. Which character says, in Chapter 12, "What a pity it is you're not a writer of stories!"?
(a) The Very Young Man.
(b) The Time Traveler.
(c) The Editor.
(d) The Medical Man.

4. 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?
(a) The North Star.
(b) The Big Dipper.
(c) The Aurora Borealis.
(d) The Milky Way.

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

6. In Chapter 10, Wells describes the Eloi's "feeble prettiness," which is compared to which characteristics of the Morlocks?
(a) "Mechanical industry."
(b) "Technological improvement."
(c) "Scientific know-how."
(d) "Ghastly beastiness."

7. What are the animals the Time Traveler finds in the farther future in Chapter 11?
(a) Butterflies and crabs.
(b) Mosquitoes and rabbits.
(c) Cockroaches and eels.
(d) Snakes and shrimp.

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

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

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

11. What, at the end of the chapter about the forest fire, is described as an "overwhelming calamity"?
(a) The destruction of the Time Machine.
(b) The destruction of the Morlocks.
(c) The destruction of the forest.
(d) Weena's death.

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

13. In Chapter 11, when the Time Traveler attempts to escape the animals that frighten him, how far into the future does he travel?
(a) One year.
(b) One day.
(c) One decade.
(d) One month.

14. What kind of dinosaur does the Time Traveler mention in the museum?
(a) Velociraptor.
(b) Brontosaurus.
(c) Hadrosaur.
(d) Tyrannosaurus rex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Time Traveler keep the camphor he finds?

2. Why does the Time Traveler refer to the "abominable desolation" of the far future in Chapter 11?

3. In the forest in Chapter 7, whom does Wells describe as the "dainty ones"?

4. What surprises the Time Traveler when he goes to the White Sphinx to finally reclaim his time machine?

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

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