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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Scorpions.
(b) Butterflies.
(c) Cockroaches.
(d) Crabs.

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. What is the framework of the Palace of Green Porcelain made of?
(a) Glass.
(b) Bone.
(c) Wood.
(d) Metal.

10. What surprises the Time Traveler when he goes to the White Sphinx to finally reclaim his time machine?
(a) The valve doors are open.
(b) The Sphinx is now green.
(c) The Sphinx has been moved.
(d) The forest fire singed the doors.

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

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

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

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

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) Black.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, in the even farther future, what characterizes the oceans?

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

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. One of the characters who does not believe the Time Traveler's story in Chapter 12 refers to it as which of the following?

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

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