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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 matches.
(c) The levers.
(d) The pipe.

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

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

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

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

6. What is Weena's reaction to the growing forest fire?
(a) She wants to put it out.
(b) She wants to run away from it.
(c) She wants to capture it in a glass.
(d) She wants to run to the fire and play with it.

7. What characterizes the thirty or forty Morlocks on the hill, watching the fire rage toward them?
(a) They are on fire.
(b) They are hungry for Eloi.
(c) They are sorry for killing.
(d) They are helpless.

8. Although the Time Traveler finds sulfur in the museum, what additional ingredient for gunpowder does he lack?
(a) Cobalt.
(b) Neon.
(c) Sodium.
(d) Saltpeter.

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

10. What is the Editor smoking, if anything, in Chapter 12?
(a) A cigar.
(b) A cigarette.
(c) A pipe.
(d) Nothing.

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

12. Discussing the fear of the Eloi during the New Moon, the Time Traveler says that his fear is different than theirs. Why?
(a) He is afraid of the Eloi.
(b) He knows he has an escape route.
(c) He is not paralyzed by his fear.
(d) He is not afraid of the Morlocks.

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

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

15. In the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels, what color is the one evidence of animal life he sees?
(a) Green.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the Time Traveler, must be "useless" if nature is appealing to intelligence?

2. When the Time Traveler sees the river and estuary from the point of view of the Palace of Green Porcelain, what does he think of for the first time?

3. What does the Time Traveler plan to use to illuminate the woods?

4. What does the Time Traveler realize when he picks Weena up and slings her over his shoulder?

5. What are the objects/things that Wells describes with the word "carbuncles"?

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