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

2. Why is it dark in the room where the men hear the Time Traveler's story?
(a) The Time Traveler put out the fire.
(b) The candles were not lit.
(c) The time machine broke the lamp.
(d) The power was out.

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

4. What distinguishes the way the Time Traveler walks when he returns during the second dinner?
(a) He is missing a foot.
(b) He runs everywhere very quickly.
(c) He walks with a limp.
(d) He walks with a cane.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What allows him to escape the Morlocks?

2. What best describes the "prettiness" of the Eloi, when the Time Traveler first meets them?

3. What "rises and falls" while the Time Traveler is observing from inside the time machine?

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

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

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 happens to Weena in the forest fire?

3. Where (in terms of to which time period/what kind of time period) does the narrator assume that the Time Traveler has traveled to at the end of the novel?

4. Why does the Time Traveler think the Morlocks started eating Eloi?

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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