This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Classics > The Time Machine – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Time Machine Quiz 18 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What do the Eloi look like? A) Tall people with nice clothes. B) Very similar to the Time Traveller. C) Little people and men and women are very similar. D) Very primitive people dressed in leather clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Little people and men and women are very similar. 2. My friend's ..... make everyone else laugh. A) Giggle. B) Tee-hee. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Giggle. 3. How does the time machine work? A) The levers control forward and backward in time, the machine stays still in space. B) The levers control forward and backward in space, the button moves time forward. C) One lever moves the machine forward in time, the other controls the machine's location. D) The Time Traveller can set a specific date and time to travel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The levers control forward and backward in time, the machine stays still in space. 4. Synonym for chuckle or snicker. A) Type. B) Carpenter. C) Giggle. D) Area. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Giggle. 5. Why is Weena unable to walk in the forest? (from Chapter 9) A) She falls asleep. B) She has to fangpi. C) She is injured. D) She faints. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She faints. 6. At the end of the selection, what does the narrator most likely mean when he says "I caught Filby's eye over the shoulder of the Medical Man, and he winked at me solemnly" ? A) Filby and the narrator like to play jokes on the Medical Man. B) Filby is upset and wants to relieve tension by acting playful. C) Filby is convinced that the entire demonstration is a trick. D) Filby and the narrator are planning to steel the time machine and use it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Filby is convinced that the entire demonstration is a trick. 7. What, according to the Time Traveller, was the original purpose of the Palace of Green Porcelain? A) It was their headquarters. B) It was their palace. C) It was where they conducted rituals. D) It was a museum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It was a museum. 8. Roughly what year does the machine stop? A) 4 million C.E. B) 800, 000 B.C.E. C) 300, 000 B.C.E. D) 800, 000 C.E. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 800, 000 C.E. 9. How does the plot in Chapter 4 contribute to the overall story of The Time Machine? A) The plot in Chapter 4 introduces the Morlocks and creates tension for the protagonist. B) The plot in Chapter 4 is completely unrelated to the overall story. C) The plot in Chapter 4 introduces a new love interest for the protagonist. D) The plot in Chapter 4 focuses on the protagonist's childhood memories. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The plot in Chapter 4 introduces the Morlocks and creates tension for the protagonist. 10. What does the Time Traveller have trouble discerning in the creatures of 802, 701 AD? A) Age. B) Gender. C) Social class. D) Relative intelligence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gender. 11. What did the narrator believe had happened to the Time Machine? A) The little people had moved it. B) The narrator had lost it. C) It had been stolen by animals. D) It had disappeared on its own. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It had been stolen by animals. 12. In the selection from The Time Machine, what happens when the Psychologist pushes the lever on the Time Machine? A) The Psychologist vanishes. B) The Time Machine Vanishes. C) Everyone shouts in fear and horror. D) The narrator grabs the machine from the table. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Time Machine Vanishes. 13. What happens when the Time Traveller stops A) He gets out and return to his guests at dinner. B) He finds himself in his lawn with his maid. C) He finds himself in a hail storm passing a statue of a white sphinx on a bronze pedestal. D) He meets past figures of history. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He finds himself in a hail storm passing a statue of a white sphinx on a bronze pedestal. 14. What fear does the Time Traveller now share with the Eloi? A) Fear of the Morlocks. B) Fear of spiders. C) Fear of the sun. D) Fear of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fear of the Morlocks. 15. Fill in the blank: "The Morlocks at any rate were ..... ! Even at the time, I remember wondering what large animal could have survived to furnish the red joint I saw." A) Carnivorous. B) Frugivorous. C) Steadfastly. D) Spasmodic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carnivorous. 16. This use of ..... : "dusty and diary ..... hair disordered ..... a cut half-healed ..... blood-stained socks" , is the author trying to prove that the traveller passed through time. A) Allusion. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 17. Although he is in great distress over the missing Time Machine, what one fact makes the Time Traveller feel assured? A) The machine is indestructible. B) He has the levers. C) He knows the machine is out of fuel. D) The Morlocks have advanced tech he can use. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He has the levers. 18. Extremely nasty; evil A) Camphor. B) Calamity. C) Insidious. D) Atrocious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Atrocious. 19. Weena A) Did not understand the Time Traveller's actions. B) Would have rather drowned than been saved. C) Cared about the Time Traveller. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cared about the Time Traveller. 20. When the Time Traveler travels into the future, his workshop ..... A) Vanishes. B) Relates. C) Attempts. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vanishes. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesThe Time Machine Quiz 1The Time Machine Quiz 2The Time Machine Quiz 3The Time Machine Quiz 4The Time Machine Quiz 5The Time Machine Quiz 6The Time Machine Quiz 7The Time Machine Quiz 8The Time Machine Quiz 9The Time Machine Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books