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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Venus.
(c) Mars.
(d) The sun.

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. In the forest in Chapter 7, whom does Wells describe as the "dainty ones"?
(a) Ancient humans.
(b) Giant butterflies.
(c) The Eloi.
(d) The Morlock.

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

12. How many times did the Time Traveler see "Morlocks put their heads down in a kind of agony and rush into the flames"?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Seven.
(d) One.

13. In one section of the museum, the Time Traveler infers that the hall used artificial illumination from what evidence?
(a) Fireplaces.
(b) Torches.
(c) Broken white globes.
(d) Extension cords.

14. To what insect does the Time Traveler compare the Morlocks repeatedly in Chapter 7?
(a) Bees.
(b) Ants.
(c) Beetles.
(d) Wasps.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Time Traveler find in the great hall of the museum?

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

3. When the Time Traveler returns home, whom does he see walk in reverse across his laboratory?

4. What does the Time Traveler realize when he picks Weena up and slings her over his shoulder?

5. 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"?

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