This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Classics > The Time Machine – Quiz 37 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Time Machine Quiz 37 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Fill in the correct vocabulary word: "Save me some of that ..... I'm starving for a bit of meat." A) Phantasm. B) Mutton. C) Spasmodic. D) Frugivorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutton. 2. Which ancient people invented the yo-yo? A) Romans. B) Persians. C) Greeks. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greeks. 3. Quote: "The Morlocks were the antagonist of the story, dwelling underground and symbolizing the darker side of humanity."What do the Morlocks represent in the story's allegory? A) The upper class and aristocracy. B) The potential for human cruelty and barbarism. C) The beauty and grace of humanity. D) The pursuit of scientific knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The potential for human cruelty and barbarism. 4. What did the main character see when he woke up on the grass? A) Birds. B) Other travelers. C) Little people. D) Your own time machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Birds. 5. Why did Bill's family move to the town? A) Bill's father got a new job. B) Bill's mother got a new job. C) They didn't like the city. D) Bill's father needed a quiet place for his studies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bill's father needed a quiet place for his studies. 6. The Time Traveller finds his time machine hidden ..... A) In the museum. B) Where the Morlocks live. C) Behind some trees. D) Inside the big statue in a stone room. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inside the big statue in a stone room. 7. What was the color of the Time Machine as described in the extract? A) It was silver and shiny. B) It was black and matte. C) It was red and glossy. D) It was not mentioned in the extract. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It was not mentioned in the extract. 8. Wildly; uncontrollably A) Incontinently. B) Sphinx. C) Verdigris. D) Temerity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Incontinently. 9. How do most people feel about the experiment? A) Most people believe it and are in love with it. B) Most don't believe it, but are obsessed with it. C) Most are indifferent about it. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Most don't believe it, but are obsessed with it. 10. A result or outcome of an event or action. A) Consequence. B) Vanish. C) Slight. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consequence. 11. Approximately how many Eloi are there in the great hall? (from Chapter 5) A) Several thousand. B) About 75. C) Between 500 and 1000. D) A couple hundred. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A couple hundred. 12. He was in a garden in the future, and ..... A) They weren't interested in him any more. B) He couldn's see his time machine in the garden. C) The machine turned over and he fell out. D) He could see huge buildings and a great statue. E) Walls of his laboratory soon disappeared. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He could see huge buildings and a great statue. 13. An ancient Egyptian image with the body of a man's head, a ram's head, or a hawk's head A) Incontinently. B) Sphinx. C) Verdigris. D) Temerity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sphinx. 14. Questioning A) Colossal. B) Dilapidated. C) Frugivorous. D) Interrogative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interrogative. 15. When the narrator says, "Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon ..... " he is using the literary device ..... when talking about what the chairs do the people who sit in them. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 16. Which new guests joined the party for dinner the following week? A) The journalist and the editor. B) The professor and the assistant. C) The assistant and the editor. D) The professor and the journalist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The journalist and the editor. 17. Catastrophe, disaster A) Camphor. B) Calamity. C) Insidious. D) Atrocious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calamity. 18. What physical signs are provided that prove time is passing quickly? A) He watches trees grow and die, and buildings go up and down. B) He watches his hair turn grey before his eyes. C) He becomes old with a white beard. D) He see his grandchildren. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He watches trees grow and die, and buildings go up and down. 19. What is the only hard evidence that a time trip was actually made in The Time Machine? A) A time machine. B) Two withered flowers. C) A photograph. D) A journal entry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two withered flowers. 20. The world in the future looked like a giant, beautiful garden. A) True. B) False. 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