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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year does the Time Traveler estimate he has traveled to before he actually reports what exact year the machine recorded?
(a) 802000.
(b) 2194.
(c) 8049.
(d) 804000.

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

3. Why does the Time Traveler think that it was not the Eloi who moved the time machine?
(a) He thinks they are too weak.
(b) He thinks that the Sphinx came alive and swallowed it.
(c) He thinks they were busy eating.
(d) He thinks that one of the Eloi has traveled back in time with it.

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

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

6. What shape are the tables in the Time Traveler's room?
(a) Octagonal.
(b) Round.
(c) Rectangular.
(d) Square.

7. What does one use to operate the model?
(a) A lever.
(b) A joystick.
(c) A control panel.
(d) A button.

8. Where does the Time Traveler store the object(s) he removes from the time machine?
(a) In his knapsack.
(b) In his pocket.
(c) In a hole in the ground.
(d) Around his wrist.

9. What are the adjectives Wells uses to describe the language of the Eloi?
(a) Weird, bizarre and rich.
(b) Sickening, gutteral and anxious.
(c) Strange, sweet and liquid.
(d) Strange, rapid and soft.

10. Approximately how many Eloi are there in the great hall?
(a) Several thousand.
(b) Between 500 and 1000.
(c) A couple hundred.
(d) About 75.

11. Why does the Time Traveler remove something from the machine when he meets the Eloi and prepares to leave the machine?
(a) So the Eloi will not sell the time machine on the black market.
(b) So the Eloi cannot figure out how to build their own.
(c) So he can travel back in time without the machine.
(d) So it cannot be operated.

12. Which of the following dinner guests was at the second dinner, but NOT at the first?
(a) Filby.
(b) Blank.
(c) Hillyer.
(d) The Very Young Man.

13. What color eyes do the Morlocks have, according to the Time Traveler's first impressions?
(a) Blue-green.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown-green.
(d) Grey-red.

14. What is the name of the housekeeper?
(a) Mrs. Beale.
(b) Mrs. Watchett.
(c) Mrs. Clockett.
(d) Mrs. Walker.

15. Which of the characters actually operates the model of the time machine?
(a) The Psychologist.
(b) The Time Traveler.
(c) Hillyer.
(d) The Medical Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Eloi's tables made of?

2. The narrator mentions that if another character had shown them the time machine, they would not be as skeptical as they were of the Time Traveler. Which other character does he mention?

3. What kind of meat are they eating at the second dinner?

4. Which, of the following metals, is mentioned as part of the Time Machine?

5. According to the Time Traveler, how long did it take to make the model of the time machine?

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