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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the Time Traveler worried about stopping?
(a) He fears he might hurt a passerby.
(b) He fears he might hit something.
(c) He fears he might fall off the machine.
(d) He fears he might damage the time machine and be stuck in the future.

2. Which of the characters reads the note left by the Time Traveler?
(a) The Psychology.
(b) The Very Young Man.
(c) Filby.
(d) The Medical Man.

3. What academic subject is based on misconceptions, according to the Time Traveler?
(a) Calculus.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Arithmetic.
(d) Algebra.

4. Which character is described by the following: "an argumentative person with red hair"?
(a) The Time Traveler.
(b) The Provincial Mayor.
(c) Filby.
(d) The Editor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises the Time Traveler when he goes to the White Sphinx to finally reclaim his time machine?

2. The Time Traveler decides that the museum must be in the location of which part of London from his own time?

3. What best describes the animal life the Time Traveler sees in the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels?

4. What adjectives does Wells employ to describe the Morlocks' hands?

5. What does the Time Traveler judge his pace in the machine to be?

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