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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Time Traveler smell in the air when he descends into where the Morlocks live?
(a) Mold.
(b) Rotting fruit.
(c) Blood.
(d) Garbage.

2. Which character is described in Chapter 2 as having "more than a touch of whim among his elements"?
(a) Filby.
(b) Hillyer.
(c) The Time Traveler.
(d) The Psychologist.

3. What do the Eloi wear on their heads?
(a) Turbans.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Derby hats.
(d) Skullcaps.

4. Whom did the narrator meet on Friday at the Linnaeum?
(a) The Psychologist.
(b) Filby.
(c) The Medical Man.
(d) The Provincial Mayor.

5. What does the Time Traveler notice about Eloi gender roles?
(a) That the males bear young.
(b) That there is no real gender difference.
(c) That females are larger and more assertive than males.
(d) That males are louder and more graceful than females.

6. What is the air temperature in this far future?
(a) Warm.
(b) Freezing.
(c) Chilly.
(d) Humid.

7. How big is the model time machine the Time Traveler shows his guests?
(a) The size of a football.
(b) The size of an automobile.
(c) The size of a pocketwatch.
(d) The size of a small clock.

8. Which character suggests that, in the future, time travelers might encounter communist societies?
(a) The Medical Man.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Filby.
(d) The Psychologist.

9. What adjective does the Time Traveler use to describe the hair color of the Morlocks?
(a) Titian.
(b) Strawberry blonde.
(c) Albino.
(d) Flaxen.

10. What is the "trick" the Medical Man says the Time Traveler showed them last Christmas?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A spaceship.
(c) An alien autopsy.
(d) A disappearing rabbit.

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

12. What does the Time Traveler ask his guests to save for him while he changes?
(a) Meat.
(b) Greenbean casserole.
(c) Salad.
(d) Dessert.

13. What does the Time Traveler judge his pace in the machine to be?
(a) A season an a milisecond.
(b) A decade an second.
(c) An hour a day.
(d) A year a minute.

14. When the Time Traveler sees an animal in the night, what does he take it for?
(a) A rabbit.
(b) A small deer.
(c) An Eloi.
(d) A goat.

15. What year does the Time Traveler say the dials on his machine recorded?
(a) 8027.
(b) 800001.
(c) 802701.
(d) 89271.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under which social or political system does it appear the Eloi are living, to the Time Traveler?

2. Approximately how tall are the creatures?

3. Why does the Time Traveler think that it was not the Eloi who moved the time machine?

4. How much does the Editor offer to pay for the Time Traveler's story?

5. Why does the Time Traveler remove something from the machine when he meets the Eloi and prepares to leave the machine?

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