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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 sound does the Time Traveler hear from deep within the shaft?
(a) Heavy-metal music.
(b) Subway/Underground train.
(c) Screams.
(d) Machinery.

2. Which of the following dinner guests was at the second dinner, but NOT at the first?
(a) Filby.
(b) The Very Young Man.
(c) Blank.
(d) Hillyer.

3. What color are the Time Traveler's eyes?
(a) Hazel.
(b) Blue.
(c) Grey.
(d) Green.

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

5. Of what metal is the pedestal of the Sphinx made?
(a) Silver.
(b) Copper.
(c) Bronze.
(d) Gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Time Traveler smoking?

2. Which character is described in Chapter 2 as having "more than a touch of whim among his elements"?

3. Upon what geographical formation does the Time Traveler find himself in the far future?

4. What does the Time Traveler judge his pace in the machine to be?

5. In what type of clothing is the group of figures the Time Traveler sees clad?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How much time has passed for the Time Traveler? How does this compare to the amount of time that he says has passed for the guests?

3. How does the Time Traveler describe the way the language of the Eloi sound?

4. Why does the Time Traveler believe that the Eloi did not need intellect?

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

6. What is different about the second dinner party, which is held a week after the first?

7. Why are the characters primarily represented by the name of their profession rather than their actual names?

8. What does the Time Traveler discover about the Morlocks that allows him to escape the three of them in the tunnel?

9. 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?

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

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