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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Time Traveler planning to make when he says, in Chapter 7, "to procure some means of fire."
(a) A coal fire.
(b) A torch.
(c) A forest fire.
(d) A camp fire.

2. What are the animals the Time Traveler finds in the farther future in Chapter 11?
(a) Butterflies and crabs.
(b) Cockroaches and eels.
(c) Snakes and shrimp.
(d) Mosquitoes and rabbits.

3. Although the Time Traveler finds sulfur in the museum, what additional ingredient for gunpowder does he lack?
(a) Neon.
(b) Saltpeter.
(c) Cobalt.
(d) Sodium.

4. Which character says, in Chapter 12, "What a pity it is you're not a writer of stories!"?
(a) The Medical Man.
(b) The Time Traveler.
(c) The Very Young Man.
(d) The Editor.

5. What does the Time Traveler realize when he picks Weena up and slings her over his shoulder?
(a) That the fire is spreading.
(b) That Weena is dead.
(c) That they are surrounded my Morlocks in all directions.
(d) That he has lost his way in the forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. While the Time Traveler notices that the constellations are different in the night sky as he and Weena bed down in the forest, what is the one celestial feature that is seemingly unchanged?

2. What are the objects/things that Wells describes with the word "carbuncles"?

3. In Chapter 11, in the even farther future, what characterizes the oceans?

4. Why does the Time Traveler keep the camphor he finds?

5. What, according to the Time Traveler, must be "useless" if nature is appealing to intelligence?

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