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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. To what does the Time Traveler compare his excitement/anxiety when he is about to travel in the machine for the first time?
(a) To a suicide.
(b) To a frisky kitten.
(c) To an expectant mother.
(d) To a newborn baby.

2. The narrator mentions that if another character had shown them the time machine, they would not be as skeptical as they were of the Time Traveler. Which other character does he mention?
(a) Filby.
(b) The Provincial Mayor.
(c) The Medical Man.
(d) The Very Young Man.

3. Compared to the children the Time Traveler is used to, what does he estimate the intellectual age of the Eloi to be?
(a) About 10 years old.
(b) About 7 years old.
(c) About 3 years old.
(d) About 5 years old.

4. What does the Time Traveler describe the first Eloi he sees as?
(a) "Strong as an ox."
(b) "Incredibly frail."
(c) "Preternaturally lovely."
(d) "Ghastly wrinkled."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how tall are the creatures?

2. How big is the model time machine the Time Traveler shows his guests?

3. Where does the Psychologist first say the model must have gone?

4. Which character is described by the following: "an argumentative person with red hair"?

5. Why is it dark in the room where the men hear the Time Traveler's story?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Time Traveler glad about what happened to Weena?

2. What do the Editor and the Journalist think about the story the guests relate about the model time machine?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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