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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Time Traveler find in the great hall of the museum?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Bones.
(c) Old computers.
(d) Priceless antiques.

2. What is the Editor's reaction to the Time Traveler's story?
(a) He does not believe it.
(b) He wants to interview him.
(c) He wants to option the rights.
(d) He wants to go to the future himself.

3. What surprises the Time Traveler when he goes to the White Sphinx to finally reclaim his time machine?
(a) The valve doors are open.
(b) The forest fire singed the doors.
(c) The Sphinx is now green.
(d) The Sphinx has been moved.

4. In Chapter 11, when the Time Traveler has traveled even farther into the future, what has happened to the moon?
(a) It has disappeared.
(b) It has turned blue.
(c) It is orbiting closer to the Earth.
(d) It has been colonized.

5. What does the Time Traveler tell his guests is the only difference in the Time Machine when he returns home?
(a) That it is in the opposite corner of the room.
(b) That it needs to be repaired.
(c) That is is damaged.
(d) That it is still in the future.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Time Traveler refer to the "abominable desolation" of the far future in Chapter 11?

2. In Chapter 10, Wells describes the Eloi's "feeble prettiness," which is compared to which characteristics of the Morlocks?

3. What kind of dinosaur does the Time Traveler mention in the museum?

4. How far into the future has the Time Traveler traveled when the "sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part of the darkling heavens"?

5. What, at the end of the chapter about the forest fire, is described as an "overwhelming calamity"?

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