This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Classics > The Time Machine – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Time Machine Quiz 24 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. One theme of the novel is that humankind will weaken if it depends too much on A) Money and politics. B) Exploitation and technology. C) War and conquest. D) Philosophy and pleasure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exploitation and technology. 2. The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest. What is being personified? A) The forest. B) The wind. C) A person whispering. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The wind. 3. How does the Time Traveller describe the strange creature he encounters in a colossal ruin near the great hall? A) He sees a great serpent with bright yellow eyes and huge fangs. B) He sees a huge spider-like creature with large claws, long antennae, and many legs. C) He sees a dull white, ape-like creature with grayish-red eyes. D) He sees a seven-foot man-like creature covered with fur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He sees a dull white, ape-like creature with grayish-red eyes. 4. There were hardly any carvings on any monuments.Identify True or False A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. What do the creatures offer the Time Traveller when he indicates that he did in fact come out of the thunderstorm? A) Fruit. B) Berries. C) Nuts. D) Flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flowers. 6. Wild, rough land. A) Flutter. B) Scoop. C) Stallion. D) Wilderness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wilderness. 7. He is very popular. He finds it easy to ..... friends. A) Have. B) Make. C) Help. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make. 8. What color were the Morlocks? A) White. B) Black. C) Yellow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) White. 9. What did the narrator see when he reached the lawn? A) The Time Machine. B) The White Sphinx. C) The silver tree. D) The flowering bushes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Time Machine. 10. What theory did the narrator develop about the future world? A) Communism. B) Capitalism. C) Anarchy. D) Socialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Communism. 11. Very thin; hollow-cheeked A) Gaunt. B) Hypothesis. C) Receded. D) Mace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gaunt. 12. The Eloi forced the Morlocks ..... underground. A) Living. B) Live. C) To live. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To live. 13. What were the relations between the Eloi and the Morlocks in the past? A) Cooperative. B) Unfriendly. C) Friendly. D) Happy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unfriendly. 14. Why do the people at the dinner party doubt the Time Traveller's story? A) He had a history of playing pranks. B) Someone said the T.T. was caught telling lies. C) T.T. told the Medical Man he was unsure. D) He has a strange laugh while telling the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He had a history of playing pranks. 15. Three times A) Blundering. B) Bewilderment. C) Uncanny. D) Thrice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thrice. 16. A person sent out ahead to gather information. A) Cheerful. B) Expert. C) Scout. D) Tough. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scout. 17. You introduce people who already know each other. A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 18. Quote: "The Time Traveller observed that the Eloi were like children, living a carefree life in a paradise."What do the Eloi symbolize in the allegory? A) The decline of human intelligence. B) The working class and laborers. C) The loss of childhood innocence. D) A utopian society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The decline of human intelligence. 19. Something that does not work or succeed A) Panic. B) Hardly. C) Suppose. D) Failure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Failure. 20. What is the author's purpose for writing this text?Refer to p. 113 for this answer. A) To persuade the reader. B) To inform the reader. C) To entertain the reader. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To entertain the reader. ← 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