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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. Which character is described by the following: "an argumentative person with red hair"?
(a) The Time Traveler.
(b) The Editor.
(c) Filby.
(d) The Provincial Mayor.

2. What allows him to escape the Morlocks?
(a) Shouting as loudly as he can.
(b) His sidearm.
(c) Weena comes with reinforcements.
(d) Setting a piece of paper on fire.

3. What are the Eloi's tables made of?
(a) Wood.
(b) Quartz crystals.
(c) Formica.
(d) Polished stone.

4. What kind of meat are they eating at the second dinner?
(a) Pork.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Beef.
(d) Mutton.

5. In Chapter 3, which of the following things is wrong with the time machine when the Time Traveler returns?
(a) Cracked ivory lever.
(b) Shattered quartz crystal.
(c) Neither of these things.
(d) Both of these things.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does the Editor offer to pay for the Time Traveler's story?

2. What does the Time Traveler describe the first Eloi he sees as?

3. What is the Time Traveler smoking?

4. What is the texture of the Eloi's hair?

5. Compared to the children the Time Traveler is used to, what does he estimate the intellectual age of the Eloi to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Time Traveler think the Morlocks started eating Eloi?

2. What does the Time Traveler discover about the Palace?

3. When the Time Traveler sees the Morlocks for the first time, what does he notice about them and what conclusions about evolution does he draw?

4. What do the Editor and the Journalist think about the story the guests relate about the model time machine?

5. Describe the historical (and technological) setting of this novel.

6. Where (in terms of to which time period/what kind of time period) does the narrator assume that the Time Traveler has traveled to at the end of the novel?

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

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

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

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

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