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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. How many Eloi are in the first group the Time Traveler meets soon after he lands?
(a) Over a thousand.
(b) Just 3.
(c) 8 or 10.
(d) 80 or 100.

2. Inside the machine, it seems as if the housekeeper walks from one end of the room to the other like what object?
(a) A rocket.
(b) A snail.
(c) A bullet.
(d) A turtle.

3. What is the Time Traveler smoking?
(a) A cigar.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A pipe.
(d) A cigarette.

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

5. What is the texture of the Eloi's hair?
(a) Braided.
(b) Fine.
(c) Straight.
(d) Curly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Time Traveler ask his guests to save for him while he changes?

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

3. Where does the Time Traveler live?

4. Approximately how tall are the creatures?

5. Which of the characters reads the note left by the Time Traveler?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Time Traveler see when he stops the machine in the far future in Chapter 3?

2. 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?

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

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

5. What happens to Weena in the forest fire?

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. Why does the Time Traveler take the lever out of the time machine when he lands in the far future?

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