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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, which of the following things is wrong with the time machine when the Time Traveler returns?
(a) Neither of these things.
(b) Cracked ivory lever.
(c) Both of these things.
(d) Shattered quartz crystal.

2. One of the characters who does not believe the Time Traveler's story in Chapter 12 refers to it as which of the following?
(a) "Tawdry fiction."
(b) "Brazen story."
(c) "Incredible tale."
(d) "Gaudy lie."

3. When the Time Traveler returns home in Chapter 12, even he himself wonders if the whole experience was just a what?
(a) Hallucination.
(b) Fantasy.
(c) Dream.
(d) False memory.

4. What, according to the Editor in the Epilogue, is "black and blank [...] a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story"?
(a) The Editor's account of the story.
(b) The future.
(c) The Time Traveler's story.
(d) The present.

5. How does the Time Traveler determine that the time machine was taken into the base of the Sphinx?
(a) He smells burnt metal.
(b) He finds marks and footprints.
(c) The Eloi read him a note they found.
(d) He can see it through the windows in the base of the statue.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Time Traveler compares the Morlocks to which kind of monkey or ape?

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

4. How was the archway into the great hall of the Eloi decorated?

5. The Time Traveler assumes that his voice is too what for the Eloi?

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