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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately what time is it, when the Time Traveler returns home, according to the journalist?
(a) Eleven o'clock.
(b) Nine o-clock.
(c) Three o'clock.
(d) One o'clock.

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

3. Where does the Time Traveler intend to go once he is armed with things he found at the museum?
(a) The White Sphinx.
(b) The forest.
(c) The Morlocks' wells.
(d) The Eloi's great hall.

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

5. 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) Ocean creatures and sea life.
(b) Pollution and water quality.
(c) Ice fishing.
(d) Shipping Lanes.

6. What word best describes the Time Traveler's actions just before he realizes that he cannot easily light the matches?
(a) Ego.
(b) Hubris.
(c) Id.
(d) Irony.

7. What is the framework of the Palace of Green Porcelain made of?
(a) Wood.
(b) Bone.
(c) Metal.
(d) Glass.

8. In the dark of the forest, how does the Time Traveler know that there are Morlocks near them?
(a) "Queer sounds" in the woods
(b) Neither of the above.
(c) Both of the above.
(d) A tug on his coat.

9. When the Time Traveler returns home in Chapter 12, even he himself wonders if the whole experience was just a what?
(a) False memory.
(b) Hallucination.
(c) Dream.
(d) Fantasy.

10. Which character returns to the Time Traveler's laboratory the next day, after the Time Traveler returns home?
(a) The Journalist.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The Medical Man.
(d) The Editor.

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

12. In the farthest future to which the Time Traveler travels, what color is the one evidence of animal life he sees?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

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

14. Why does the Time Traveler have trouble lighting matches in Chapter 10?
(a) They are wet.
(b) They are supposed to light on the box.
(c) He drops them.
(d) He could not find them in his pockets.

15. To what far future creature does the following description apply: "its many legs moving slowly and uncertainly, its big claws swaying, its long antennae like carters' whips"?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) Crabs.
(c) Cockroaches.
(d) Scorpions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Time Traveler plan to use to illuminate the woods?

2. What objects were the Morlocks attempting to pry out of the Time Traveler's fingers while they were struggling in the dark?

3. How many times did the Time Traveler see "Morlocks put their heads down in a kind of agony and rush into the flames"?

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

5. What, at the end of the chapter about the forest fire, is described as an "overwhelming calamity"?

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