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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 11, when the Time Traveler attempts to escape the animals that frighten him, how far into the future does he travel?
(a) One day.
(b) One decade.
(c) One year.
(d) One month.

2. What characterizes the thirty or forty Morlocks on the hill, watching the fire rage toward them?
(a) They are helpless.
(b) They are on fire.
(c) They are hungry for Eloi.
(d) They are sorry for killing.

3. Discussing the fear of the Eloi during the New Moon, the Time Traveler says that his fear is different than theirs. Why?
(a) He is afraid of the Eloi.
(b) He is not paralyzed by his fear.
(c) He is not afraid of the Morlocks.
(d) He knows he has an escape route.

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

5. Which character returns to the Time Traveler's laboratory the next day, after the Time Traveler returns home?
(a) The Editor.
(b) The Medical Man.
(c) The Journalist.
(d) The narrator.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the Time Traveler returns home in Chapter 12, even he himself wonders if the whole experience was just a what?

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

4. Why did the Morlocks' plan fail?

5. In the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels, how big is the one evidence of animal life he sees?

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