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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what type of clothing is the group of figures the Time Traveler sees clad?
2. What is the model of the time machine made out of?
3. Which part of the Time Traveler's body has a half-healed cut on it when he returns to the second dinner?
4. The narrator mentions that if another character had shown them the time machine, they would not be as skeptical as they were of the Time Traveler. Which other character does he mention?
5. Approximately how many Eloi are there in the great hall?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the Time Traveler feel when he first got out of the time machine in the far future in Chapter 3?
2. To the narrator, what do the strange white flowers seem to symbolize at the end of the novel?
3. Why does the Time Traveler believe that the Eloi did not need intellect?
4. Why does the Time Traveler feel instinctual hatred for and fear of the Morlocks?
5. What is different about the second dinner party, which is held a week after the first?
6. How much time has passed for the Time Traveler? How does this compare to the amount of time that he says has passed for the guests?
7. Describe the final creature the Time Traveler observes, in the farthest future time period he travels to (30 million years in the future).
8. What happens when the Psychologist pushes the lever on the model time machine and how do the observers respond?
9. Why, according to the Time Traveler, is the Fourth Dimension overlooked?
10. What do the people the Time Traveler meets in the far future in Chapter 3 look like?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
This novel is one of the founding works of science fiction, or more specifically, one of the earliest examples of speculative fiction. Consider this novel in terms of its genre, identifying the fictional elements that are "science fictional" or speculative, and determining how Wells used speculative elements to craft a sharp critique of his own time. Be sure to include specific textual examples.
Essay Topic 2
Even though Weena seems to be a main character, she is someone without language, someone with little agency, and is not even human. Explain the ways in which Wells characterizes Weena and determine the specific strategies he employs to distance her from the reader. What ideas does her characterization dramatize? What does she "represent" and do you consider her a main or major character in this novel? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
This novel takes what some might consider a pessimistic view of the role science plays in modern life. Even though Wells's narrative takes place in the 19th century, there are many parallels one could draw between the scientific and technical progress discuused in the novel and the explosion of digital technologies in our own time. Using textual examples from Wells, analyze the effects technological developments and innovations are likely to have on humanity. Compare and contrast Wells's predictions of what technological advancement does to humanity with your opinion of the effects of the technological advancements from your own lifetime.
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