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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. What color is the animal the Time Traveler sees in the night on the way to look for his missing time machine?

2. In Chapter 3, which of the following things is wrong with the time machine when the Time Traveler returns?

3. Remarking on how dirty the Time Traveler's clothes were, the Journalist wonders whether or not the future has any of what object?

4. When the Time Traveler sees an animal in the night, what does he take it for?

5. The Time Traveler recognizes the landscape of the Eloi as the valley of what river from his own time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Time Traveler do with the white flowers Weena picked?

2. Describe the guests at the Time Traveler's first dinner party and what they talked about.

3. What do the Editor and the Journalist think about the story the guests relate about the model time machine?

4. Why does the Time Traveler eventually stop the machine?

5. Why does the Time Traveler feel instinctual hatred for and fear of the Morlocks?

6. To the narrator, what do the strange white flowers seem to symbolize at the end of the novel?

7. What does the Time Traveler discover about the Palace?

8. What kind of humans, according to the Time Traveler, must have been the source of the Morlocks? Why did they evolve the way they did?

9. Why does the Time Traveler think the Morlocks started eating Eloi?

10. What does the Time Traveler intend to do with Weena once he recovers the time machine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both the Eloi and the Morlock live in communist societies. Describe what makes these societies "communist" or communal, using textual examples. Determine what you think Wells's opinions of communism might have been. What do you think he wanted his readers to think and feel about communism?

Essay Topic 2

The question of humanity, of what makes a person human, is at the forefront of this novel's play of ideas. Wells posits, perhaps, that there are certain characteristics that define the essence of humanity, which the Morlock and the Eloi have lost. Name and describe these characteristics, using specific examples. You may want to consider specifically his time in the museum, as well as the end of the novel and the epilogue, as well as his first few days with the Eloi.

Essay Topic 3

While some critics argue that the Morlocks represent the future of the working class and the Eloi the future of the elite classes, there are also many other characters in the novel who actually are middle and upper class. Describe briefly the analysis of social power dynamics represented by the science fiction elements evidence in the Morlock and the Eloi. Then consider two or three of the characters who are middle class--the Time Traveler, the Medical Man, the Editor, or the Psychologist--and analyze to what extent these characters offer a critique of their own on the social class they represent. You may also consider, if you wish, why none of the onscreen characters are representative of the working class.

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