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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 is the first thing the Time Traveler drinks at the second dinner?
(a) Beer.
(b) Water.
(c) Scotch.
(d) Champagne.

2. Which character suggests that, in the future, time travelers might encounter communist societies?
(a) The Medical Man.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The Psychologist.
(d) Filby.

3. What does the Time Traveler remove from the time machine when he prepares to follow the Eloi?
(a) Dials.
(b) Levers.
(c) Knobs.
(d) The saddle.

4. Approximately how tall are the creatures?
(a) Five feet.
(b) Four feet.
(c) Six feet.
(d) Three feet.

5. What do the Eloi wear on their heads?
(a) Turbans.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Skullcaps.
(d) Derby hats.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the Time Traveler describe the feeling of the Eloi touching him?

3. To what "zoological" specimen does the Time Traveler compare the color of the Morlocks' bodies?

4. Into what kind of weather does the Time Traveler arrive in the far future?

5. How big is the model time machine the Time Traveler shows his guests?

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 kind of food does the Time Traveler particularly crave when he returns?

3. Describe the Time Traveler's appearance when he suddenly arrives during the second dinner.

4. Why does the Time Traveler feel instinctual hatred for and fear of the Morlocks?

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

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

7. What are the physical attributes of the Eloi the Time Traveler describes? What are their features like?

8. Inside the dark tunnel he explores in the Palace, the Time Traveler finds a carcass. What is it and what does this carcass foreshadow?

9. What is the Editor's reactions when the Time Traveler tells him and the other guests of his journey?

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

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