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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character returns to the Time Traveler's laboratory the next day, after the Time Traveler returns home?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The Medical Man.
(c) The Editor.
(d) The Journalist.

2. What does the Time Traveler say about "the dream of the human intellect"?
(a) That it was "annihilated by evolution."
(b) That it was "fated to die."
(c) That it was "wiped out."
(d) That it "committed suicide."

3. In Chapter 10, Wells describes the Eloi's "feeble prettiness," which is compared to which characteristics of the Morlocks?
(a) "Mechanical industry."
(b) "Ghastly beastiness."
(c) "Technological improvement."
(d) "Scientific know-how."

4. Discussing the fear of the Eloi during the New Moon, the Time Traveler says that his fear is different than theirs. Why?
(a) He knows he has an escape route.
(b) He is afraid of the Eloi.
(c) He is not afraid of the Morlocks.
(d) He is not paralyzed by his fear.

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

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

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

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

9. What does the Time Traveler decide about Weena at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) To teach her to flight the Morlock.
(b) To stay here and marry her.
(c) To bring her into the past with him.
(d) To bring her into the far future.

10. Why is Weena unable to walk in the forest?
(a) She wants to die.
(b) She is injured.
(c) She falls asleep.
(d) She faints.

11. In the dark of the forest, how does the Time Traveler know that there are Morlocks near them?
(a) Both of the above.
(b) Neither of the above.
(c) A tug on his coat.
(d) "Queer sounds" in the woods

12. In the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels, what color is the one evidence of animal life he sees?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

13. What best describes the animal life the Time Traveler sees in the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels?
(a) Finned.
(b) Winged.
(c) Three-toed.
(d) Tentacled.

14. Why is it significant that the moon is starting to wane in Chapter 7?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Because the Morlocks feed off lunar energy.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Because the nights will be darker.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Time Traveler refer to when he says "wilderness of rotting paper"?

3. In Chapter 11, when the Time Traveler has traveled even farther into the future, what has happened to the moon?

4. What is Weena's reaction to the growing forest fire?

5. The Time Traveler decides that the museum must be in the location of which part of London from his own time?

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