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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. The Time Traveler remarks in Chapter 4 that the first Eloi he sees has a strange absence of what instinct?
(a) Anger.
(b) Fear.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Aggression.

2. What do the Eloi offer the Time Traveler when he intimates that he did in fact come out of the thunderstorm?
(a) Berries.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Nuts.
(d) Fruit.

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

4. What does the Time Traveler remove from the time machine when he prepares to follow the Eloi?
(a) Knobs.
(b) The saddle.
(c) Levers.
(d) Dials.

5. At what time of day does the time machine begin its day, according to the Time Traveler?
(a) 4:00 A.M..
(b) 10:00 A.M.
(c) 12:00 A.M..
(d) 2:00 A.M..

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the archway into the great hall of the Eloi decorated?

2. Which part of the Time Traveler's body has a half-healed cut on it when he returns to the second dinner?

3. What color are the Time Traveler's eyes?

4. To what does the Time Traveler compare his excitement/anxiety when he is about to travel in the machine for the first time?

5. Compared to the children the Time Traveler is used to, what does he estimate the intellectual age of the Eloi to be?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the Time Traveler begin to share the Eloi's fear of the dark?

3. What kind of food does the Time Traveler particularly crave when he returns?

4. When the Time Traveler sees the Morlocks for the first time, what does he notice about them and what conclusions about evolution does he draw?

5. Describe the historical (and technological) setting of this novel.

6. How does the forest fire start?

7. What are the physical attributes of the Eloi the Time Traveler describes? What are their features like?

8. In addition to the flowers, what other piece of tangible, physical evidence seems to offer some proof to the dinner guests that the Time Traveler may have actually traveled in time?

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

10. How did the Time Traveler feel when he first got out of the time machine in the far future in Chapter 3?

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