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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What adjectives does Wells employ to describe the Morlocks' hands?
(a) Soft and little.
(b) Rigid and sharp.
(c) Weak and wet.
(d) Brittle and dry

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

4. What, at the end of the chapter about the forest fire, is described as an "overwhelming calamity"?
(a) The destruction of the forest.
(b) The destruction of the Time Machine.
(c) Weena's death.
(d) The destruction of the Morlocks.

5. What are the objects/things that Wells describes with the word "carbuncles"?
(a) The lever from his time machine.
(b) The bright red stars.
(c) Weena's eyes.
(d) The Morlocks' eyes.

6. What does the Time Traveler realize when he picks Weena up and slings her over his shoulder?
(a) That Weena is dead.
(b) That he has lost his way in the forest.
(c) That they are surrounded my Morlocks in all directions.
(d) That the fire is spreading.

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

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

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

10. What kind of dinosaur does the Time Traveler mention in the museum?
(a) Brontosaurus.
(b) Velociraptor.
(c) Tyrannosaurus rex.
(d) Hadrosaur.

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 sun.
(b) Venus.
(c) Mars.
(d) The Green Palace.

12. What do the Morlocks plan to do with the Time Traveler?
(a) They planned to make him eat Eloi.
(b) They planned to travel into the past with him.
(c) They planned to trap him in the dark.
(d) They planned to let him go.

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

14. What is the Editor's reaction to the Time Traveler's story?
(a) He wants to interview him.
(b) He wants to go to the future himself.
(c) He wants to option the rights.
(d) He does not believe it.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times did the Time Traveler see "Morlocks put their heads down in a kind of agony and rush into the flames"?

2. How far into the future has the Time Traveler traveled when the "sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part of the darkling heavens"?

3. To what insect does the Time Traveler compare the Morlocks repeatedly in Chapter 7?

4. What was the Morlocks' plan inside the White Sphinx?

5. Where does the Time Traveler intend to go once he is armed with things he found at the museum?

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