The Time Machine Quiz 1 (20 MCQs)

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1. What does the Time Traveler refer to when he says "wilderness of rotting paper" ? (from Chapter 8)

Correct Answer: C) The library.

2. Lacking color; pale

Correct Answer: A) Pallid.

3. Where was the time machine hidden?

Correct Answer: D) In the Sphinx.

4. Filby thinks the Time Traveller's ideasdon't make sense.

Correct Answer: A) True.

5. The guests in the story were the inventor's

Correct Answer: B) Friends.

6. When was Walter Hallstein President of the European Commission?

Correct Answer: C) 50s-60s.

7. Which one is not a fruit

Correct Answer: A) Carrot.

8. The Time Traveller was

Correct Answer: A) Strong and brave.

9. What they saw?

Correct Answer: D) Morlock.

10. The group began to chant.

Correct Answer: B) Repeat the same words again and again.

11. In YOUR opinion, what might TWO benefits of time travel be?

Correct Answer: A) Understanding historical events better and preventing future mistakes.

12. The people of the future

Correct Answer: D) Were not very strong.

13. What social system does the time traveler believe is in the future?

Correct Answer: B) Communism.

14. The future world

Correct Answer: B) Seemed to b e free from hard times and fear.

15. A zigzag road

Correct Answer: B) Switchback.

16. What is the setting of chapter 3 in The Time Machine?

Correct Answer: B) The setting of chapter 3 in The Time Machine is the year A.D. 802, 701 in a future world.

17. When the Time Traveller landed on the green lawn,

Correct Answer: B) He discovered a strange statue.

18. Why does everybody know each other in the town?

Correct Answer: B) It is a small town.

19. What do the Eloi eat?

Correct Answer: A) Fruit.

20. What creature did the main character see in the house?

Correct Answer: A) Monkey with red eyes and long arms.