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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. What does the Time Traveler ask his guests to save for him while he changes?
(a) Meat.
(b) Salad.
(c) Greenbean casserole.
(d) Dessert.

2. What is the first thing the Time Traveler drinks at the second dinner?
(a) Scotch.
(b) Champagne.
(c) Beer.
(d) Water.

3. Where does the Psychologist first say the model must have gone?
(a) Into the future.
(b) Into a different room.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) Into the past.

4. When the Time Traveler sees an animal in the night, what does he take it for?
(a) A goat.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A small deer.
(d) An Eloi.

5. Why does the Time Traveler remove something from the machine when he meets the Eloi and prepares to leave the machine?
(a) So he can travel back in time without the machine.
(b) So it cannot be operated.
(c) So the Eloi cannot figure out how to build their own.
(d) So the Eloi will not sell the time machine on the black market.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the first Eloi's tunic?

2. What sound does the Time Traveler hear from deep within the shaft?

3. How does the Time Traveler describe the feeling of the Eloi touching him?

4. What is the name of the housekeeper?

5. Which of the characters actually operates the model of the time machine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Time Traveler find when he begins to explore the Palace of Green Porcelain in the Southwest?

2. What do the people the Time Traveler meets in the far future in Chapter 3 look like?

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

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

5. To the narrator, what do the strange white flowers seem to symbolize at the end of the novel?

6. Describe the state of the time machine when the Time Traveler finally finds it in the base of the White Sphinx?

7. Why is the Time Traveler glad about what happened to Weena?

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

9. What happens when the Psychologist pushes the lever on the model time machine and how do the observers respond?

10. What does the Time Traveler feel when he sees the decayed books in the Palace?

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