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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. In which point of view is Chapter 2 told?
(a) Third person, limited to Hillyer's point of view.
(b) First person, from Hillyer's point of view.
(c) First person, from the Time Traveler's point of view.
(d) Third person omniscient.

2. Approximately how many Eloi are there in the great hall?
(a) About 75.
(b) A couple hundred.
(c) Between 500 and 1000.
(d) Several thousand.

3. In what type of clothing is the group of figures the Time Traveler sees clad?
(a) "Soft robes."
(b) "Fine dresses."
(c) "Tawdry togs."
(d) "Somber frocks."

4. In which direction is the Palace of Green Porcelain?
(a) Due South.
(b) Northeast.
(c) Southwest.
(d) Due North.

5. Of what foodstuff does the diet of the Eloi consist?
(a) Insects.
(b) Poultry.
(c) Vegetables.
(d) Fruit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Eloi wear on their heads?

2. What is the name of the housekeeper?

3. Of what metal is the pedestal of the Sphinx made?

4. Which part of the Time Traveler's body has a half-healed cut on it when he returns to the second dinner?

5. What frightens the Time Traveler badly enough to make him flee the underground lair of the Morlocks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the Psychologist pushes the lever on the model time machine and how do the observers respond?

2. What finally convinces the narrator himself of the truth of the Time Traveler's story at the end of the novel?

3. How much time has passed for the Time Traveler? How does this compare to the amount of time that he says has passed for the guests?

4. Why does the Time Traveler believe that the Eloi did not need intellect?

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

6. Describe the plan the Time Traveler comes up with to recover his time machine and escape back to the past.

7. After the Time Traveler escapes the Morlocks and starts traveling farther into the future, what does he notice about the sun?

8. Why does the Time Traveler take the lever out of the time machine when he lands in the far future?

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. To the narrator, what do the strange white flowers seem to symbolize at the end of the novel?

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