This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Time Machine – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Time Machine Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Time Traveler stops on a beach. What type of creatures surround the Time Machine? (chpts. 9-Epilogue) A) They are super-humans able to read the Time Traveler's mind. B) They are primitive humans in animal skins who do not possess language skills. C) They are large crab-like creatures with claws, long antennae, and many legs. D) They are small, football shaped creatures with slimy tentacles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are large crab-like creatures with claws, long antennae, and many legs. 2. Fill in the correct vocabulary word: "Save me some of that ..... I'm starving for a bit of meat." A) Spasmodic. B) Mutton. C) Phantasm. D) Frugivorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutton. 3. Which ancient people invented the yo-yo? A) Romans. B) Persians. C) Greeks. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greeks. 4. 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. 5. What did the main character see when he woke up on the grass? A) Little people. B) Other travelers. C) Birds. D) Your own time machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birds. 6. 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. 7. The Time Traveller finds his time machine hidden ..... A) Where the Morlocks live. B) In the museum. 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. 8. 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. 9. Wildly; uncontrollably A) Verdigris. B) Temerity. C) Sphinx. D) Incontinently. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Incontinently. 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. An ancient Egyptian image with the body of a man's head, a ram's head, or a hawk's head A) Sphinx. B) Temerity. C) Incontinently. D) Verdigris. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sphinx. 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) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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) Atrocious. C) Insidious. D) Calamity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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 photograph. B) A time machine. C) Two withered flowers. D) A journal entry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two withered flowers. 20. The world in the future looked like a giant, beautiful garden. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 21. The machine time traveler had shown on Thursday was incomplete A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 22. How does the narrator feel about the prospect of building another Time Machine? A) Excited. B) Overwhelmed. C) Determined. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overwhelmed. 23. What is the name of an 8 sided shape A) Hexagon. B) Pentagon. C) Octagon. D) Nineagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Octagon. 24. What did the narrator expect about people living 800, 000 years in the future? A) They would have much greater knowledge than us in science and art. B) They would be exactly like us. C) They would have no knowledge at all. D) They would be invisible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They would have much greater knowledge than us in science and art. 25. The world the Time Traveller knows is the future is A) Much worse than in 1895. B) Full of the technology. C) About the same with some little differences. D) Much better than in 1895. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Much worse than in 1895. 26. How might Mrs. Myserson's imaginary trip to the past affect her present life? A) She enjoyed her trip to the past and those happy memories might help her feel happier in her present life. B) It won't affect her present life. C) It'll make her more angry about the past. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She enjoyed her trip to the past and those happy memories might help her feel happier in her present life. 27. What tragic event happens to Weena during the attack by the Morlocks? A) She turns into a Morlock. B) She becomes invisible. C) She dies. D) She disappears. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She dies. 28. What evidence do the men have that the miniature actually traveled through time? EXPLAIN and use details from the text. A) They have a video recording of the miniature traveling. B) They have scientific measurements showing temporal displacement. C) They have the miniature's sudden appearance and changed condition as evidence. D) They have eyewitness accounts from people who saw the miniature disappear and reappear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They have the miniature's sudden appearance and changed condition as evidence. 29. Who was the main character in story A) Time traveler. B) The crab like creature. C) The butterfly like creature. D) None of this. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time traveler. 30. Meaning of "explicit" A) Clear, precise. B) Confusing. C) Inappropriate, confusing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clear, precise. 31. Fill in the blank: "I won't say a word until I get some ..... into my arteries." A) Apparition. B) Bewilderment. C) Irreverent. D) Peptone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peptone. 32. What does the Time Traveller find that confirms he has arrived back in time on the correct date? A) The tea he had made before he left was still hot. B) A copy of the Time Machine on the table. C) The housemaid showing up for her shift right on time. D) A copy of the Pall Mall Gazette on the table. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A copy of the Pall Mall Gazette on the table. 33. Quote: "Achingly beautiful and alien, strange life-forms were arrayed in countless numbers."What do the strange life-forms represent in this context? A) The inhabitants of future Earth. B) Time itself. C) The challenges of time travel. D) The mysteries of science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The inhabitants of future Earth. 34. Fine white ceramic material A) Vermin. B) Pallid. C) Porcelain. D) Acacia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Porcelain. 35. What kind of appendages does the black blob have? A) Noodles. B) Arms. C) Claws. D) Tentacles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tentacles. 36. What does the Time Traveller crave? A) Fish. B) Bread. C) Ticked. D) Meat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meat. 37. The Time Traveller walked through the narrow ..... A) Tunnel. B) Passage. C) Valley. D) Street. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Passage. 38. What strange animal does he see? A) Giant crabs. B) Unicorns. C) Giant birds. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Giant crabs. 39. The tired builders ..... home at the end of the long work day. A) Trudge. B) Remind. C) Preserve. D) Strain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Preserve. 40. Which characters descended from lower class individuals such as construction workers? A) Eloi. B) Morlocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Morlocks. 41. Which vehicle should we take? A) Suitcase. B) Passageway. C) Suggestion. D) Automobile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Automobile. 42. A temporary platform or floor used to build something else A) Switchback. B) Scaffolding. C) Velocity. D) Faint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scaffolding. 43. When the Time Traveler goes to the second great hall trying to find the Time Machine, what item does he use that the little people have forgotten? (chpts. 5-8) A) Matches. B) Scissors. C) Eye Glasses. D) Magnifying Glasses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Matches. 44. Strange people touched his face and laughed. But soon ..... A) Time traveller's head turned and the machine shook badly. B) Ten o'clock and stopped a moment later at half past three!. C) They weren't interested in him any more. D) He couldn's see his time machine in the garden. E) The machine turned over and he fell out. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They weren't interested in him any more. 45. Of what foodstuff does the diet of the Eloi consist? (from Chapter 5) A) Poultry. B) Fruit. C) C after D European server. D) Insects. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fruit. 46. Synonym for investigator, detective, P.I., or sleuth. A) Detective. B) Canvas. C) Hoarse. D) Janitor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Detective. 47. Animals like monkeys that function primarily at night; the word is associated with the word "lemurs" which refers to spirits of the unburied dead. A) Inevitable. B) Preternaturally. C) Lemurs. D) Carnivorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lemurs. 48. What is the Time Traveller about to do when the narrator returns to talk to him the next day? A) Destroy the time machine. B) Travel to the past. C) Get groceries for their dinner. D) Travel to the future. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Travel to the future. 49. Describe the unusual appearance of the Time Traveller. A) He is dirty, has cuts and bruises, and has a limp. B) He is clean and healthy. C) He has sandy brown hair and green eyes. D) He is short, bald, and has a limp. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is dirty, has cuts and bruises, and has a limp. 50. Who is the only character that believes the Time Traveller? A) The psychologist. B) The editor. C) The doctor. D) The narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The narrator. 51. What kind of meat does the Time Traveller finally deduce he saw on the table in the Morlocks' cavern? A) Exotic megafauna from an unknown lost continent. B) Mutated bodies and grotesque creatures of the deep. C) A jumble of unsettling bones and joints akin to human remains. D) Synthetic and artificial meat that has been cloned in factory farm labs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A jumble of unsettling bones and joints akin to human remains. 52. Which of these words has the same meaning as quack in this passage? "I don't want to waste this model, and then be told I'm a quack." A) Genius. B) Magician. C) Fraud. D) Hypocrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fraud. 53. When was 'The Time Machine' first published? A) 1925. B) 1875. C) 1895. D) 1905. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1895. 54. What do the surface dwellers offer the Time Traveller when he intimates that he did in fact come out of the thunderstorm? A) Fruit. B) Flowers. C) Nuts. D) Berries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fruit. 55. The Time Traveller believes in a fifthdimension. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 56. What do the Morlocks eat? A) Fruit. B) Meat. C) Mac'n Cheese. D) Plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meat. 57. How was the archway into the great hall of the surface dwellers decorated? A) With garlands of flowers. B) With carvings. C) With streamers. D) With faux finish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With carvings. 58. Which word means to fascinate or to stir up interest? A) Relate. B) Intrigue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intrigue. 59. When determining a theme, the reader should first consider ..... A) The subject or topic. B) The title. C) The illustrations. D) The length of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The subject or topic. 60. For what object did he defend himself? A) Branches. B) Stones. C) Metal bars. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metal bars. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnglish Literature 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books