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What is the name of the creatures who live above ground?

1. Eloi
2. Morlocks
3. Weena
4. Porcelains

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Where is the time machine hidden?

1. In the Morlocks' underworld
2. In the Palace of Green Porcelain
3. In the woods near the Palace of Green Porcelain
4. In the pedestal of the sphinx statue

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is (or was) the Palace of Green Porcelain?

1. Another Eloi habitation
2. A museum
3. A portal to the underworld
4. A Morlock stronghold

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In this novella, what is the fourth dimension?

1. Hope
2. The past
3. Space
4. Time

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following brushes the Time Traveller with its antennae?

1. A giant crab
2. A huge white butterfly
3. An Eloi
4. A tentacled black thing

✅ Correct Answer: 1

As time passes, what happens to the sun?

1. It gets smaller
2. It stops moving
3. It becomes dimmer
4. It speeds up in its trajectory across the sky

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following does the Time Traveller not retrieve from the museum?

1. Camphor
2. A lever
3. Sulphur
4. Matches

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following ecological disasters does the Time Traveller inflict on the future?

1. A forest fire
2. The introduction of foreign diseases
3. Interbreeding
4. Desertification

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What do the Morlocks fear most?

1. The time machine
2. The Time Traveller
3. The Eloi
4. Light

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why does the Time Traveller remove the levers from his machine?

1. To use them as weapons
2. To prevent anyone from using the machine
3. To turn off the machine
4. To prove he had made his journey

✅ Correct Answer: 2

. What does the Time Traveller bring back from the future?

1. Weena
2. A giant crab
3. Two Flowers
4. Camphor

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The Eloi remind the Time Traveller of:

1. Fairies
2. Cavemen
3. Lawyers
4. Victims of tuberculosis

✅ Correct Answer: 4

When the novella appeared, H.G. Wells was a(n):

1. Astronomer
2. Priest
3. Research assistant
4. Science teacher

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Eloi language contains few:

1. Nouns
2. Verbs
3. Abstract terms
4. Words

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Weena seems to love the Time Traveller. Why?

1. He is big and strong
2. He saved her life
3. He is not afraid of Morlocks
4. He is exotic

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the narrator's position in relation to the Time Traveller?

1. The narrator is the Time Traveller
2. The narrator is Weena, and loves the Time Traveller
3. The narrator does not believe the Time Traveller
4. The narrator believes the Time Traveller

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is the function of the underground machines?

1. hey manufacture industrial goods for the Eloi
2. They are used to cook Eloi
3. They are the ventilators of the underworld
4. They are Morlock-mobiles

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The Time Machine was first published in book form in what year?

1. 1895
2. 1905
3. 1915
4. 1925

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Before he discovers the Morlocks, the Time Traveller ascribes the weakness of humankind's descendents to what?

1. Fate
2. Communism
3. Religion
4. Capitalism

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In what city was Herbert George Wells born in 1866?

1. Glasgow
2. Oslo
3. San Francisco
4. London

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In what city was Herbert George Wells born in 1866?

1. Glasgow
2. San Francisco
3. Francisco
4. London

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What was Wells' first occupation, before writing?

1. Police officer
2. Science teacher
3. Journalist
4. Mechanic

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What was The Time Machine the first instance of when it was published in 1895?

1. A whodunit
2. A time-travel story
3. A post-apocalyptic novel
4. A western dime novel

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What classic work of literature was an important precursor to The Time Machine?

1. Vanity Fair
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Robinson Crusoe
4. Gulliver's Travels

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What genre of fiction was Wells an important early contributor to?

1. Science fiction
2. Noir fiction
3. Romance
4. Fantasy

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What year does the time traveller first travel to?

1. AD
2. 1066 AD
3. 2005 AD
4. 802,701 AD

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is the name of the small humanoid creatures that the Time Traveller encounters in the future?

1. Morlocks
2. Eloi
3. Lilliputains
4. Smurfs

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Where is the time machine hidden?

1. Under the sea
2. In a statue pedestal
3. In a ceiling crawlspace
4. In a basement

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the only sign of life on earth that the Time Traveller find thirty million years into the future?

1. A sentient brick
2. A giant housecat
3. A talking snowball
4. A black blob

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is the Time Traveller's name?

1. It isn't given
2. Mr. Peress
3. Mr. Franck
4. Miss Jean Brodie

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What city does the Time Traveller live at the edge of?

1. London
2. New York
3. Bristol
4. Vienna

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What relation does the narrator, Mr. Hillyer, bear to the Time Traveller?

1. Never met him
2. Dinner guest
3. Close personal friend
4. Son

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Whose behavior toward the Time Traveller resembles that of a pet or a small child?

1. Weena
2. Mr Hillyer
3. Mr. Fido
4. The black blob

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What about Weena is the Time Traveller sure of, despite the difficulty judging such things among the Eloi?

1. That he is male
2. That she is female
3. Weena's age
4. Weena's musical tastes

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What subject is the Time Traveller lecturing his guests about in the novel's opening scene?

1. Wormholes
2. Stoichiometry
3. Thermodynamics
4. The fourth dimension

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What happens to the miniature time machine when a dinner guest pushes the "forward" lever?

1. Nothing
2. It fades
3. It disappears
4. It grows larger

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What do most of the dinner guests think about the Time Traveller's demonstration on the small time machine?

1. It made no sense
2. It proved nothing
3. It substantiated time travel
4. It was a prank

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In what kind of a state does the Time Traveller show up for the second dinner he hosts?

1. Drunk
2. Dusty and disheveled
3. Loud and belligerent
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Before beginning his story, what does the Time Traveller claim that he has no energy to do?

1. Argue
2. Wrestle
3. Entertain
4. Time travel again

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Where does the Time Traveller fear he might accidentally end up when he stops?

1. In a lava pit
2. Above an ocean
3. Inside a solid object
4. In a garbage dump

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What phrase describes the physique of the creatures that the Time Traveller encounters in 802,701 AD?

1. Long and flexible
2. Short and brittle
3. Ugly and strong
4. Beautiful and frail

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How do the creatures react to the Time Traveller's arrival?

1. They run from him
2. They worship him
3. They welcome him
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What does the Time Traveller have trouble discerning in the creatures of 802,701 AD?

1. Age
2. Gender
3. Social class
4. Relative intelligence

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What assessment does the Time Traveller make of the creatures' personalities?

1. Foolish
2. Lazy
3. Aggressive
4. Both a and b

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What does the Time Traveller notice is missing as night begins to fall?

1. Street lights
2. His time machine
3. His wallet
4. His spectacles

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What kind of statue does the Time Traveller believe contains his time machine in its pedestal?

1. A cherub
2. A sphinx
3. An angel
4. A lion

✅ Correct Answer: 2

How does the Time Traveller meet Weena?

1. Saves her from drowning
2. Saves her from leopards
3. Saves her from fire
4. Finds her with the time machine

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Where do the Morlocks live?

1. In the trees
2. With the Eloi
3. n the water
4. Underground

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What does the relationship between Eloi and Morlocks remind the Time Traveller of in his own era?

1. Wealth disparity
2. Racial inequality
3. Human sexual attraction
4. International cooperation

✅ Correct Answer: 1

How does the Time Traveller access the underground kingdom of the Morlocks?

1. Via his time machine
2. Via a sewer
3. Via an elevator
4. Via a well

✅ Correct Answer: 4