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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Weena's reaction to the growing forest fire?
(a) She wants to put it out.
(b) She wants to run away from it.
(c) She wants to capture it in a glass.
(d) She wants to run to the fire and play with it.

2. What is happening to the Time Traveler's memory in Chapter 12, when he returns home?
(a) It is becoming more vivid.
(b) It is generating false images.
(c) None of the above.
(d) It is fading.

3. What does the Time Traveler say about "the dream of the human intellect"?
(a) That it was "annihilated by evolution."
(b) That it was "wiped out."
(c) That it "committed suicide."
(d) That it was "fated to die."

4. Why cannot Weena help the Time Traveler make out or interpret the inscription he finds in the Palace of Green Porcelain?
(a) Because Weena did not want to.
(b) Because Weena does not speak any language at all.
(c) Because Weena was a bad student of history.
(d) Because she is illiterate/has no written language.

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

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

7. What kind of dinosaur does the Time Traveler mention in the museum?
(a) Velociraptor.
(b) Brontosaurus.
(c) Hadrosaur.
(d) Tyrannosaurus rex.

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

9. 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 coal fire.
(c) A camp fire.
(d) A torch.

10. In one section of the museum, the Time Traveler infers that the hall used artificial illumination from what evidence?
(a) Extension cords.
(b) Fireplaces.
(c) Torches.
(d) Broken white globes.

11. Which group of people is compared to the Carolingian kings in Chapter 7?
(a) The Morlock.
(b) The Eloi.
(c) Neanderthals.
(d) Modern Humans.

12. 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.

13. Why does the Time Traveler refer to the "abominable desolation" of the far future in Chapter 11?
(a) Monster Crabs.
(b) Poisonous-looking plants.
(c) Thin air.
(d) All of the above.

14. What do the Morlocks plan to do with the Time Traveler?
(a) They planned to travel into the past with him.
(b) They planned to make him eat Eloi.
(c) They planned to trap him in the dark.
(d) They planned to let him go.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Discussing the fear of the Eloi during the New Moon, the Time Traveler says that his fear is different than theirs. Why?

2. What was the Morlocks' plan inside the White Sphinx?

3. Although the Time Traveler finds sulfur in the museum, what additional ingredient for gunpowder does he lack?

4. What characterizes the thirty or forty Morlocks on the hill, watching the fire rage toward them?

5. What surprises the Time Traveler when he goes to the White Sphinx to finally reclaim his time machine?

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