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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. What is the Editor's reaction to the Time Traveler's story?
(a) He wants to go to the future himself.
(b) He wants to option the rights.
(c) He does not believe it.
(d) He wants to interview him.

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

8. 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) Fantasy.
(d) Dream.

9. What, according to the Time Traveler, must be "useless" if nature is appealing to intelligence?
(a) "Drive and desire."
(b) "Intuition and ritual."
(c) None of these.
(d) "Habit and instinct."

10. What are the animals the Time Traveler finds in the farther future in Chapter 11?
(a) Butterflies and crabs.
(b) Cockroaches and eels.
(c) Mosquitoes and rabbits.
(d) Snakes and shrimp.

11. 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 Time Machine.
(c) Weena's death.
(d) The destruction of the forest.

12. What is the Editor smoking, if anything, in Chapter 12?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A cigarette.
(c) A cigar.
(d) A pipe.

13. Why did the Morlocks' plan fail?
(a) The Time Traveler had a working torch.
(b) The Time Traveler had a gun to fight them.
(c) It turned out that they were afraid of the dark.
(d) They did not understand the nature of the Time Machine.

14. What part of the Time Traveler's clothing fascinated Weena?
(a) His shoe buckles.
(b) His pockets.
(c) His hat.
(d) His necktie.

15. What does the Time Traveler tell his guests is the only difference in the Time Machine when he returns home?
(a) That is is damaged.
(b) That it needs to be repaired.
(c) That it is still in the future.
(d) That it is in the opposite corner of the room.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. What word best describes the Time Traveler's actions just before he realizes that he cannot easily light the matches?

4. What adjectives does Wells employ to describe the Morlocks' hands?

5. Which group of people is compared to the Carolingian kings in Chapter 7?

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