The Time Machine Quizzes

The Time Machine Quiz 1

1 Where is the Time Machine held?
In the Great Hall

Inside the White Sphinx

In the Palace of Green Porcelain

In a well
2 What does the Time Traveler (TT) use to strike the Morlocks?
The Time Machine

Weena

A stick

A lever
3 How does the TT meet Weena?
He saves her from the Morlocks

He finds her sleeping

He saves her from drowning

She introduces herself to him
4 Of what social class are the Morlocks descendants?
Aristocracy

Working class

Royalty

Middle class
5 Why do the Morlocks flee from the TT in the forest?
He threatens to hurt Weena

He yells at them

He has set a forest fire

He is too strong
6 What happens to the sun when the TT travels into the far future?
It explodes

It loses energy and dies

It expands

It is replaced by the moon
7 How does the TT believe Time is related to Space?
It is slower than space

It is Space's Zero Dimension

It is Space's Fourth Dimension

He does not think it is
8 What do the Eloi eat?
Flowers

Meat

Morlocks

Fruit
9 What do the Morlocks eat?
Fruit

Eloi

Vegetables

Flowers
10 Where does the TT find artifacts from the past?
In the wells

In the Palace of Green Porcelain

In the forest

In the White Sphinx
11 What kind of creatures are the Morlocks?
Diurnal

Hibernators

Insomniacs

Nocturnal
12 What do the Eloi call the period of the waning moon?
The Light of the Dark Black Night

Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Moon

The Dark Nights
13 What temporarily blinds the Morlocks?
A light bulb

The sun

Fire

The moon
14 Where does the TT introduce his concept of time travel?
At his weekly dinner party

In the future

In his garden

At a conference
15 What social system does the TT initially believe is in place in 802,701 AD?
Capitalism

Democracy

Communism

Monarchy
16 What animal do the Morlocks resemble?
Apes

Panthers

Birds

Gorillas
17 What scientific principle does the TT's visit to the decaying world thirty millions in the future illustrate?
Evolution

Social Darwinism

Entropy

Recidivism
18 What scientific theory developed by Herbert Spencer does "The Time Machine" combat in many ways?
Entropy

Social Darwinism

Capitalism

Maoism
19 What major social change further stratified the classes in 18th- and 19th-century England?
Bartering

The adoption of Communism

Primitivism

The Industrial Revolution
20 Who is known as the founder of Communism?
Friedrich Engels

Karl Marx

Vladimir Lenin

Adam Smith
21 What does Weena constantly give to the TT?
Fruit

Flowers

Matches

Money
22 What word did Wells most likely want the word "Eloi" to resemble?
Elide

Eliminate

Elegant

Elite
23 Why is the TT afraid to stop the Time Machine once it is in use?
Because he may end up in a completely different place

Because he enjoys riding it too much

Because it may collide with another mass

Because it may break if stopped too suddenly
24 How does the TT first demonstrate the Time Machine?
He sends the narrator of on it

He uses a smaller model

He opens it up

He shows a visual rendering of what it can do
25 Other than the narrator, which two guests are present at both dinner parties?
The Medical Man and the Psychologist

The Medical Man and Filby

The Editor and the Journalist

Filby and the Very Quiet Man

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Arrange the events in The Time Machine from earliest to latest, based on the Time Traveller’s perspective.

1) The TT finds his machine missing.

2) The TT saves Weena from drowning.

3) The TT realizes people of the future belong to two different races called "eloi and morlocks."

4) The TT realizes the morlocks have his machine.

5) The TT explores the...

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(a) Identify What issue related to the model’s disappearance does the Psychologist bring up for discussion?

When the machine disappears. The men are astounded. The TT says he has nearly completed a larger machine, with which he intends to travel through time himself. When asked, he admits he does not know if the model has gone into the past or the...

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The Time Machine

by H.G. Wells

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