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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the adjectives Wells uses to describe the language of the Eloi?
(a) Sickening, gutteral and anxious.
(b) Strange, rapid and soft.
(c) Weird, bizarre and rich.
(d) Strange, sweet and liquid.

2. What is the air temperature in this far future?
(a) Chilly.
(b) Warm.
(c) Freezing.
(d) Humid.

3. The Time Traveler recognizes the landscape of the Eloi as the valley of what river from his own time?
(a) The Thames.
(b) The Danube.
(c) The Mississippi.
(d) The Floss.

4. Which of the characters says that he has never heard of the Fourth Dimension?
(a) Filby.
(b) Hillyer.
(c) The Time Traveler.
(d) The Provincial Mayor.

5. How did he find out her name was Weena?
(a) He read her mail.
(b) She told him.
(c) He saw her identification card.
(d) Another Eloi told him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Time Traveler live?

2. What allows him to escape the Morlocks?

3. Which, of the following metals, is mentioned as part of the Time Machine?

4. Why is it dark in the room where the men hear the Time Traveler's story?

5. What academic subject is based on misconceptions, according to the Time Traveler?

Short Essay Questions

1. In addition to the flowers, what other piece of tangible, physical evidence seems to offer some proof to the dinner guests that the Time Traveler may have actually traveled in time?

2. What leads the Time Traveler to believe that his time machine has been taken into the White Sphinx?

3. What political system is discussed in Chapter 1 as a possible future for humanity and why has Wells included it?

4. What are the Eloi doing when the Time Traveler first enters the great hall?

5. How does the Time Traveler describe the way the language of the Eloi sound?

6. Describe the point of view that takes over the story in Chapter 3?

7. When the Time Traveler started the fire, was his response to the danger of the Morlocks instinctual or intellectual? Explain your claim.

8. What is different about the second dinner party, which is held a week after the first?

9. What kind of humans, according to the Time Traveler, must have been the source of the Morlocks? Why did they evolve the way they did?

10. What does the Time Traveler find in the hall labeled Chemistry and how does it help him?

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