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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the Time Traveler planning to make when he says, in Chapter 7, "to procure some means of fire."
(a) A forest fire.
(b) A camp fire.
(c) A coal fire.
(d) A torch.
2. While the Time Traveler notices that the constellations are different in the night sky as he and Weena bed down in the forest, what is the one celestial feature that is seemingly unchanged?
(a) The Big Dipper.
(b) The Aurora Borealis.
(c) The North Star.
(d) The Milky Way.
3. What does the Time Traveler find in the great hall of the museum?
(a) Bones.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Priceless antiques.
(d) Old computers.
4. Which group of people is compared to the Carolingian kings in Chapter 7?
(a) Modern Humans.
(b) The Morlock.
(c) Neanderthals.
(d) The Eloi.
5. What is the framework of the Palace of Green Porcelain made of?
(a) Glass.
(b) Metal.
(c) Bone.
(d) Wood.
6. Which character returns to the Time Traveler's laboratory the next day, after the Time Traveler returns home?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The Medical Man.
(c) The Journalist.
(d) The Editor.
7. What does the Time Traveler plan to use to illuminate the woods?
(a) The Moon.
(b) Fire.
(c) The lights on the time machine.
(d) Weena's flashlight.
8. What kinds of creature does Weena find and play with in the museum?
(a) Sea-urchin.
(b) Coral.
(c) Conch.
(d) Horseshoe crab.
9. To what does this description apply: "a vast dome glowing with a dull heat, and now and then suffering a momentary extinction," in Chapter 11?
(a) The Green Palace.
(b) Venus.
(c) The sun.
(d) Mars.
10. What does the narrator think he sees in Chapter 12?
(a) Weena.
(b) A ghost image of the Time Machine.
(c) The reflection of the Time Traveler.
(d) A Morlock.
11. In Chapter 10, Wells describes the Eloi's "feeble prettiness," which is compared to which characteristics of the Morlocks?
(a) "Scientific know-how."
(b) "Ghastly beastiness."
(c) "Mechanical industry."
(d) "Technological improvement."
12. Why is it significant that the moon is starting to wane in Chapter 7?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Because the Morlocks feed off lunar energy.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Because the nights will be darker.
13. Why does the Time Traveler keep the camphor he finds?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Its usefulness as a medicine.
(c) Both of the above.
(d) Its flammable properties.
14. What does the Time Traveler decide about Weena at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) To stay here and marry her.
(b) To teach her to flight the Morlock.
(c) To bring her into the far future.
(d) To bring her into the past with him.
15. What is happening to the Time Traveler's memory in Chapter 12, when he returns home?
(a) It is becoming more vivid.
(b) None of the above.
(c) It is generating false images.
(d) It is fading.
Short Answer Questions
1. What characterizes the thirty or forty Morlocks on the hill, watching the fire rage toward them?
2. What kind of dinosaur does the Time Traveler mention in the museum?
3. In the dark of the forest, how does the Time Traveler know that there are Morlocks near them?
4. When the Time Traveler and Weena are seeking refuge in the Palace of Green Porcelain, what is remarkable about the statue of the faun they find on their way?
5. What does the Time Traveler tell his guests is the only difference in the Time Machine when he returns home?
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