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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. Of what foodstuff does the diet of the Eloi consist?
(a) Insects.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Poultry.

2. In Chapter 3, which of the following things is wrong with the time machine when the Time Traveler returns?
(a) Neither of these things.
(b) Both of these things.
(c) Shattered quartz crystal.
(d) Cracked ivory lever.

3. Which part of the Time Traveler's body has a half-healed cut on it when he returns to the second dinner?
(a) His forehead.
(b) His chin.
(c) His cheek.
(d) His neck.

4. Whom did the narrator meet on Friday at the Linnaeum?
(a) The Medical Man.
(b) Filby.
(c) The Provincial Mayor.
(d) The Psychologist.

5. What is the term for a problem in time travel or a contradiction of the timeline mentioned by the Psychologist in Chapter 1?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Paraclete.
(c) Contraindication.
(d) Orthodoxy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, does the Time Traveler imagine, the Eloi all want to touch him?

2. In which direction is the Palace of Green Porcelain?

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

4. The Time Traveler recognizes the landscape of the Eloi as the valley of what river from his own time?

5. What is the Fourth Dimension?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. According to the Time Traveler, what happened when he sat in the Time Machine and pressed the lever?

4. When the Earth is in perpetual twilight, the air thin and hard to breathe, and the sun is huge and red, what are the only two animals/creatures The Time Traveler sees? What do they look like?

5. What happens after the Time Traveler mimics the clap of thunder that accompanied his arrival in Chapter 4?

6. Why does the Time Traveler eventually stop the machine?

7. Why, according to the Time Traveler, is the Fourth Dimension overlooked?

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

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

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