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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What "rises and falls" while the Time Traveler is observing from inside the time machine?
(a) Buildings.
(b) Flowers.
(c) A winged sphinx.
(d) The tide.

2. When the Time Traveler sees the river and estuary from the point of view of the Palace of Green Porcelain, what does he think of for the first time?
(a) Shipping Lanes.
(b) Ocean creatures and sea life.
(c) Ice fishing.
(d) Pollution and water quality.

3. Remarking on how dirty the Time Traveler's clothes were, the Journalist wonders whether or not the future has any of what object?
(a) Dust busters.
(b) Clothes brushes.
(c) Laundromats.
(d) Showers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the Time Traveler compare his excitement/anxiety when he is about to travel in the machine for the first time?

2. What is the Journalist's name?

3. What is the framework of the Palace of Green Porcelain made of?

4. In the dark of the forest, how does the Time Traveler know that there are Morlocks near them?

5. What does the Time Traveler find when he attempts to climb down into one of the Morlocks' shafts or tunnels?

(see the answer key)

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