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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. Why does the Time Traveler think that it was not the Eloi who moved the time machine?
(a) He thinks they were busy eating.
(b) He thinks they are too weak.
(c) He thinks that one of the Eloi has traveled back in time with it.
(d) He thinks that the Sphinx came alive and swallowed it.

2. What are the Eloi's tables made of?
(a) Wood.
(b) Polished stone.
(c) Formica.
(d) Quartz crystals.

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

4. Which of the characters actually operates the model of the time machine?
(a) Hillyer.
(b) The Time Traveler.
(c) The Psychologist.
(d) The Medical Man.

5. What is the first thing the Time Traveler drinks at the second dinner?
(a) Scotch.
(b) Beer.
(c) Water.
(d) Champagne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "trick" the Medical Man says the Time Traveler showed them last Christmas?

2. How did the Time Traveler make friends with Weena?

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

4. What kind of meat are they eating at the second dinner?

5. The Time Traveler remarks in Chapter 4 that the first Eloi he sees has a strange absence of what instinct?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the final creature the Time Traveler observes, in the farthest future time period he travels to (30 million years in the future).

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

3. Describe the Time Traveler's reaction to the fact that his machine has been moved into the White Sphinx; what action does he undertake, if any, to recover the machine?

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

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

6. What does the Time Traveler do with the white flowers Weena picked?

7. How does the forest fire start?

8. What is one possible reason the Time Traveler postulates for the physical changes from humans to Eloi?

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

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

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