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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Time Traveler refer to when he says "wilderness of rotting paper"?
(a) The portrait gallery.
(b) The forest exhibition.
(c) The library.
(d) The museum bookshop.

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

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

5. 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) White.
(d) Green.

6. 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 needs to be repaired.
(c) That it is still in the future.
(d) That it is in the opposite corner of the room.

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

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

9. 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 Milky Way.
(c) The Aurora Borealis.
(d) The Big Dipper.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What, at the end of the chapter about the forest fire, is described as an "overwhelming calamity"?

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

4. What do the Morlocks plan to do with the Time Traveler?

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

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