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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to the Time Traveler, must be "useless" if nature is appealing to intelligence?
(a) None of these.
(b) "Intuition and ritual."
(c) "Drive and desire."
(d) "Habit and instinct."

2. What does the narrator think he sees in Chapter 12?
(a) A ghost image of the Time Machine.
(b) Weena.
(c) A Morlock.
(d) The reflection of the Time Traveler.

3. 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) Notting Hill.
(c) South Kensington.
(d) Richmond.

4. In the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels, how big is the one evidence of animal life he sees?
(a) Baseball sized.
(b) Football sized.
(c) Basketball sized.
(d) Golfball sized.

5. To what far future creature does the following description apply: "its many legs moving slowly and uncertainly, its big claws swaying, its long antennae like carters' whips"?
(a) Cockroaches.
(b) Crabs.
(c) Scorpions.
(d) Butterflies.

6. What kinds of creature does Weena find and play with in the museum?
(a) Coral.
(b) Conch.
(c) Sea-urchin.
(d) Horseshoe crab.

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

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

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

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

11. Which character returns to the Time Traveler's laboratory the next day, after the Time Traveler returns home?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The Editor.
(c) The Medical Man.
(d) The Journalist.

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 not afraid of the Morlocks.
(b) He is not paralyzed by his fear.
(c) He knows he has an escape route.
(d) He is afraid of the Eloi.

13. 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 Big Dipper.
(b) The Milky Way.
(c) The Aurora Borealis.
(d) The North Star.

14. 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 stay here and marry her.
(c) To bring her into the far future.
(d) To teach her to flight the Morlock.

15. In the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels, what is one thing that's missing?
(a) Sounds.
(b) Water.
(c) Life.
(d) Ice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Time Traveler have trouble lighting matches in Chapter 10?

2. Although the Time Traveler finds sulfur in the museum, what additional ingredient for gunpowder does he lack?

3. Why cannot Weena help the Time Traveler make out or interpret the inscription he finds in the Palace of Green Porcelain?

4. In the dark of the forest, how does the Time Traveler know that there are Morlocks near them?

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

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