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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. In Chapter 11, in the even farther future, what characterizes the oceans?
(a) There is only fresh water.
(b) They are acidic.
(c) There are giant sharks.
(d) There are no waves or breakers.

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

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

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

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

8. Whom does the Time Traveler refer to as "cattle" multiple times in Chapter 10?
(a) Ancient humans.
(b) Weena.
(c) Himself.
(d) The Eloi.

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

10. 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?
(a) Shipping Lanes.
(b) Pollution and water quality.
(c) Ice fishing.
(d) Ocean creatures and sea life.

11. To what does this description apply: "a vast dome glowing with a dull heat, and now and then suffering a momentary extinction," in Chapter 11?
(a) The Green Palace.
(b) The sun.
(c) Mars.
(d) Venus.

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

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 decade.
(b) One month.
(c) One year.
(d) One day.

14. Where does the Time Traveler intend to go once he is armed with things he found at the museum?
(a) The Eloi's great hall.
(b) The White Sphinx.
(c) The Morlocks' wells.
(d) The forest.

15. When the Time Traveler returns home, whom does he see walk in reverse across his laboratory?
(a) The Provincial Mayor.
(b) The Housekeeper.
(c) The Very Young Man.
(d) The Editor.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What characterizes the thirty or forty Morlocks on the hill, watching the fire rage toward them?

3. How have the Morlocks cared for the Time Machine?

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. When the Time Traveler returns home in Chapter 12, even he himself wonders if the whole experience was just a what?

(see the answer keys)

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