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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 frightens the Time Traveler badly enough to make him flee the underground lair of the Morlocks?
(a) He hears screams.
(b) He feels things slithering over his feet.
(c) He feels them grabbing him and touching him.
(d) He smells fear.

2. Which character is described by the following: "an argumentative person with red hair"?
(a) The Provincial Mayor.
(b) The Editor.
(c) The Time Traveler.
(d) Filby.

3. Approximately how tall are the creatures?
(a) Four feet.
(b) Three feet.
(c) Six feet.
(d) Five feet.

4. What best describes the "prettiness" of the Eloi, when the Time Traveler first meets them?
(a) Porcelain dolls.
(b) Dresden-china.
(c) Wedgwood-china.
(d) Delft blue.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Time Traveler worried about stopping?

2. What does the Time Traveler notice about Eloi gender roles?

3. What does the Time Traveler describe the first Eloi he sees as?

4. What year does the Time Traveler estimate he has traveled to before he actually reports what exact year the machine recorded?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Inside the dark tunnel he explores in the Palace, the Time Traveler finds a carcass. What is it and what does this carcass foreshadow?

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

4. How does the forest fire start?

5. 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?

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

7. What does the Time Traveler discover when, at sunset, he goes to find a place to live on his first day in the future?

8. What does the Time Traveler see and experience as he approaches his original time period?

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

10. What finally convinces the narrator himself of the truth of the Time Traveler's story at the end of the novel?

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