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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Weena's reaction to the growing forest fire?
(a) She wants to put it out.
(b) She wants to run to the fire and play with it.
(c) She wants to capture it in a glass.
(d) She wants to run away from it.

2. What, at the end of the chapter about the forest fire, is described as an "overwhelming calamity"?
(a) Weena's death.
(b) The destruction of the Morlocks.
(c) The destruction of the forest.
(d) The destruction of the Time Machine.

3. In the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels, what is one thing that's missing?
(a) Life.
(b) Ice.
(c) Water.
(d) Sounds.

4. 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.

5. What are the objects/things that Wells describes with the word "carbuncles"?
(a) The bright red stars.
(b) Weena's eyes.
(c) The Morlocks' eyes.
(d) The lever from his time machine.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Time Traveler and Weena are seeking refuge in the Palace of Green Porcelain, what is remarkable about the statue of the faun they find on their way?

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

3. In Chapter 11, when the Time Traveler has traveled even farther into the future, what has happened to the moon?

4. What does the Time Traveler plan to use to illuminate the woods?

5. What part of the Time Traveler's clothing fascinated Weena?

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