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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Weena unable to walk in the forest?
(a) She falls asleep.
(b) She wants to die.
(c) She is injured.
(d) She faints.

2. 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) The destruction of the Time Machine.
(d) Weena's death.

3. What best describes the animal life the Time Traveler sees in the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels?
(a) Tentacled.
(b) Winged.
(c) Finned.
(d) Three-toed.

4. Why does the Time Traveler keep the camphor he finds?
(a) Its flammable properties.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Both of the above.
(d) Its usefulness as a medicine.

5. What does the Time Traveler decide about Weena at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) To stay here and marry her.
(b) To bring her into the past with him.
(c) To bring her into the far future.
(d) To teach her to flight the Morlock.

6. Why is it significant that the moon is starting to wane in Chapter 7?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Because the nights will be darker.
(c) Because the Morlocks feed off lunar energy.
(d) All of the above.

7. What was the Morlocks' plan inside the White Sphinx?
(a) To lure the Time Traveler to his own death.
(b) To free the Time Traveler.
(c) To steal the time machine and go back in time.
(d) The capture as many Eloi as they could.

8. Whom does the Time Traveler refer to as "cattle" multiple times in Chapter 10?
(a) Weena.
(b) Ancient humans.
(c) Himself.
(d) The Eloi.

9. In Chapter 11, in the even farther future, what characterizes the oceans?
(a) There are giant sharks.
(b) They are acidic.
(c) There are no waves or breakers.
(d) There is only fresh water.

10. In Chapter 11, when the Time Traveler attempts to escape the animals that frighten him, how far into the future does he travel?
(a) One decade.
(b) One year.
(c) One day.
(d) One month.

11. What adjectives does Wells employ to describe the Morlocks' hands?
(a) Brittle and dry
(b) Weak and wet.
(c) Soft and little.
(d) Rigid and sharp.

12. Faced with his loathing of the Morlocks, the Time Traveler feels like a what "in a cage"?
(a) A dog.
(b) A canary.
(c) A man.
(d) A beast.

13. What surprises the Time Traveler when he goes to the White Sphinx to finally reclaim his time machine?
(a) The Sphinx is now green.
(b) The Sphinx has been moved.
(c) The valve doors are open.
(d) The forest fire singed the doors.

14. Discussing the fear of the Eloi during the New Moon, the Time Traveler says that his fear is different than theirs. Why?
(a) He knows he has an escape route.
(b) He is afraid of the Eloi.
(c) He is not afraid of the Morlocks.
(d) He is not paralyzed by his fear.

15. What are the objects/things that Wells describes with the word "carbuncles"?
(a) The Morlocks' eyes.
(b) Weena's eyes.
(c) The lever from his time machine.
(d) The bright red stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Time Traveler describe being tackled by a group of Morlocks?

2. In the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels, what is one thing that's missing?

3. In the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels, how big is the one evidence of animal life he sees?

4. One of the characters who does not believe the Time Traveler's story in Chapter 12 refers to it as which of the following?

5. How have the Morlocks cared for the Time Machine?

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