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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How big is the model time machine the Time Traveler shows his guests?
(a) The size of a pocketwatch.
(b) The size of a small clock.
(c) The size of a football.
(d) The size of an automobile.

2. What allows him to escape the Morlocks?
(a) Setting a piece of paper on fire.
(b) His sidearm.
(c) Shouting as loudly as he can.
(d) Weena comes with reinforcements.

3. What does one use to operate the model?
(a) A lever.
(b) A control panel.
(c) A joystick.
(d) A button.

4. The Time Traveler assumes that his voice is too what for the Eloi?
(a) Biting and caustic.
(b) Rough and loud.
(c) Sonorous and scathing.
(d) Harsh and deep.

5. What color eyes do the Morlocks have, according to the Time Traveler's first impressions?
(a) Brown-green.
(b) Grey-red.
(c) Blue-green.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what material does the Sphinx appear to be made?

2. What does the Time Traveler smell in the air when he descends into where the Morlocks live?

3. How many Eloi are in the first group the Time Traveler meets soon after he lands?

4. Of what foodstuff does the diet of the Eloi consist?

5. What does the first Eloi appear to be wearing on his feet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Editor and the Journalist think about the story the guests relate about the model time machine?

2. What political system is discussed in Chapter 1 as a possible future for humanity and why has Wells included it?

3. What is the narrator's outlook on the future at the end of the novel?

4. Describe the plan the Time Traveler comes up with to recover his time machine and escape back to the past.

5. Why does the Time Traveler feel instinctual hatred for and fear of the Morlocks?

6. What leads the Time Traveler to believe that his time machine has been taken into the White Sphinx?

7. What makes The Time Traveler push the lever again and leave the time period with the two creatures and the large, red sun?

8. Describe the guests at the Time Traveler's first dinner party and what they talked about.

9. What does the Time Traveler do with the white flowers Weena picked?

10. What are the Eloi doing when the Time Traveler first enters the great hall?

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