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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the dark of the forest, how does the Time Traveler know that there are Morlocks near them?
(a) Both of the above.
(b) "Queer sounds" in the woods
(c) A tug on his coat.
(d) Neither of the above.

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

3. To what far future creature does the following description apply: "its many legs moving slowly and uncertainly, its big claws swaying, its long antennae like carters' whips"?
(a) Scorpions.
(b) Butterflies.
(c) Crabs.
(d) Cockroaches.

4. What adjectives does Wells employ to describe the Morlocks' hands?
(a) Soft and little.
(b) Brittle and dry
(c) Rigid and sharp.
(d) Weak and wet.

5. What best describes the animal life the Time Traveler sees in the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels?
(a) Finned.
(b) Three-toed.
(c) Winged.
(d) Tentacled.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Weena unable to walk in the forest?

2. Which character says, in Chapter 12, "What a pity it is you're not a writer of stories!"?

3. In one section of the museum, the Time Traveler infers that the hall used artificial illumination from what evidence?

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

5. 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"?

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