The Time Machine Quizzes

The Time Machine Quiz 1

1 Where is the Time Machine held?
Inside the White Sphinx

In the Palace of Green Porcelain

In a well

In the Great Hall
2 What does the Time Traveler (TT) use to strike the Morlocks?
A lever

A stick

The Time Machine

Weena
3 How does the TT meet Weena?
He finds her sleeping

He saves her from the Morlocks

She introduces herself to him

He saves her from drowning
4 Of what social class are the Morlocks descendants?
Middle class

Aristocracy

Working class

Royalty
5 Why do the Morlocks flee from the TT in the forest?
He yells at them

He threatens to hurt Weena

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 loses energy and dies

It explodes

It is replaced by the moon

It expands
7 How does the TT believe Time is related to Space?
He does not think it is

It is Space's Zero Dimension

It is Space's Fourth Dimension

It is slower than space
8 What do the Eloi eat?
Flowers

Morlocks

Fruit

Meat
9 What do the Morlocks eat?
Fruit

Eloi

Vegetables

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

In the wells

In the Palace of Green Porcelain

In the forest
11 What kind of creatures are the Morlocks?
Insomniacs

Nocturnal

Diurnal

Hibernators
12 What do the Eloi call the period of the waning moon?
Dark Side of the Moon

The Dark Nights

The Light of the Dark Black Night

Pink Moon
13 What temporarily blinds the Morlocks?
A light bulb

Fire

The sun

The moon
14 Where does the TT introduce his concept of time travel?
In the future

In his garden

At a conference

At his weekly dinner party
15 What social system does the TT initially believe is in place in 802,701 AD?
Democracy

Capitalism

Communism

Monarchy
16 What animal do the Morlocks resemble?
Birds

Apes

Panthers

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

Recidivism

Evolution

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

Maoism

Entropy

Social Darwinism
19 What major social change further stratified the classes in 18th- and 19th-century England?
The Industrial Revolution

Bartering

The adoption of Communism

Primitivism
20 Who is known as the founder of Communism?
Karl Marx

Vladimir Lenin

Friedrich Engels

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

Matches

Fruit

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

Elite

Elegant

Elide
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 it may break if stopped too suddenly

Because it may collide with another mass

Because he enjoys riding it too much
24 How does the TT first demonstrate the Time Machine?
He shows a visual rendering of what it can do

He uses a smaller model

He sends the narrator of on it

He opens it up
25 Other than the narrator, which two guests are present at both dinner parties?
The Editor and the Journalist

Filby and the Very Quiet Man

The Medical Man and the Psychologist

The Medical Man and Filby

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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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