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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sound does the Time Traveler hear from deep within the shaft?
(a) Heavy-metal music.
(b) Machinery.
(c) Screams.
(d) Subway/Underground train.

2. Compared to the children the Time Traveler is used to, what does he estimate the intellectual age of the Eloi to be?
(a) About 5 years old.
(b) About 7 years old.
(c) About 3 years old.
(d) About 10 years old.

3. In which direction is the Palace of Green Porcelain?
(a) Due North.
(b) Southwest.
(c) Northeast.
(d) Due South.

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

5. Which of the characters says that he has never heard of the Fourth Dimension?
(a) The Provincial Mayor.
(b) Filby.
(c) The Time Traveler.
(d) Hillyer.

6. What is the first thing the Time Traveler drinks at the second dinner?
(a) Beer.
(b) Scotch.
(c) Champagne.
(d) Water.

7. 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.

8. Which battle does the Psychologist mention, when the men speak of traveling in history to see past battles?
(a) The Battle of the Bulge.
(b) The Battle of Hastings.
(c) The London Blitz.
(d) Waterloo.

9. What color are the Time Traveler's eyes?
(a) Grey.
(b) Green.
(c) Hazel.
(d) Blue.

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

11. What is the model of the time machine made out of?
(a) Ivory and a crystalline substance.
(b) Just ivory.
(c) Iron and bronze.
(d) Diamonds.

12. The Time Traveler remarks in Chapter 4 that the first Eloi he sees has a strange absence of what instinct?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Anger.
(c) Aggression.
(d) Fear.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Time Traveler worried about stopping?

2. What academic subject is based on misconceptions, according to the Time Traveler?

3. Which part of the Time Traveler's body has a half-healed cut on it when he returns to the second dinner?

4. Whom did the narrator meet on Friday at the Linnaeum?

5. Where does the Time Traveler store the object(s) he removes from the time machine?

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