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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Editor smoking, if anything, in Chapter 12?
(a) A pipe.
(b) A cigar.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A cigarette.

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

3. What are the animals the Time Traveler finds in the farther future in Chapter 11?
(a) Butterflies and crabs.
(b) Cockroaches and eels.
(c) Mosquitoes and rabbits.
(d) Snakes and shrimp.

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

5. 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 Milky Way.
(b) The Big Dipper.
(c) The Aurora Borealis.
(d) The North Star.

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

7. 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.

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

9. What was the Morlocks' plan inside the White Sphinx?
(a) To free the Time Traveler.
(b) To lure the Time Traveler to his own death.
(c) The capture as many Eloi as they could.
(d) To steal the time machine and go back in time.

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

11. How have the Morlocks cared for the Time Machine?
(a) They have oiled and cleaned it.
(b) They have taken out the crystals.
(c) They have given it a fresh coat of paint.
(d) They have broken it into pieces.

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

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

14. What word best describes the Time Traveler's actions just before he realizes that he cannot easily light the matches?
(a) Hubris.
(b) Ego.
(c) Irony.
(d) Id.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. What does the narrator think he sees in Chapter 12?

4. Which group of people is compared to the Carolingian kings in Chapter 7?

5. In one section of the museum, the Time Traveler infers that the hall used artificial illumination from what evidence?

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