The Time Machine Quiz 30 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. ..... is the action of bringing someone or something under domination or control.

Correct Answer: B) Subjugation.

2. This passage is an example of

Correct Answer: B) Science fiction.

3. What does the Time Traveler do that he later discovers to be an "atrocious folly?" (chpts. 9-Epilogue)

Correct Answer: A) He lights the firewood to frighten the Morlocks.

4. What is the time traveler's profession in The Time Machine?

Correct Answer: A) Artist.

5. What confuses the Time Traveller about the stars?

Correct Answer: A) The constellations he knows are gone due to the stars shifting over time.

6. What is one of the possible times the narrator believes that the Time Traveler may have traveled to? (from Epilogue)

Correct Answer: D) The ancient, pre-human past.

7. It is important for safety reasons, to ..... yourself in your seat when you go for a drive in the car

Correct Answer: B) Strap.

8. Resource What does it mean?

Correct Answer: A) Things that people need or can use to live.

9. Synonym for evidence, verification, confirmation, certification, documentation, or validation.

Correct Answer: C) Proof.

10. A long, loud cry.

Correct Answer: D) Wail.

11. Grace showed she was capable of taking good care of Nana by .....

Correct Answer: A) Pouring a cup of coffee for Nana.

12. Where does the Time Traveller end up eventually to try to return back in time?

Correct Answer: B) The White Sphinx.

13. Chapter 2 ends by the Time Traveller .....

Correct Answer: C) Telling the story of his time travel to friends.

14. What did the narrator discover about the little people's diet?

Correct Answer: D) They only ate fruit.

15. What surprises the Time Traveler when he goes to the White Sphinx to finally reclaim his time machine? (from Chapter 10)

Correct Answer: A) The valve doors are open.

16. Use a strong rope to lead the ..... into the barn.

Correct Answer: B) Stallion.

17. A work of fiction like the story "The Time Machine" consists of

Correct Answer: C) Made up characters and made up events.

18. What are literary devices?

Correct Answer: B) Tools used by the author to give stories meaning.

19. At the end of this story

Correct Answer: D) The inventor had not returned in three years.

20. The Time Traveler is written in which person?

Correct Answer: A) 1st.