The Time Machine Quiz 12 (60 MCQs)

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1. The Time Traveler stops on a beach. What type of creatures surround the Time Machine? (chpts. 9-Epilogue)
2. Fill in the correct vocabulary word: "Save me some of that ..... I'm starving for a bit of meat."
3. Which ancient people invented the yo-yo?
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?
5. What did the main character see when he woke up on the grass?
6. Why did Bill's family move to the town?
7. The Time Traveller finds his time machine hidden .....
8. What was the color of the Time Machine as described in the extract?
9. Wildly; uncontrollably
10. How do most people feel about the experiment?
11. A result or outcome of an event or action.
12. Approximately how many Eloi are there in the great hall? (from Chapter 5)
13. He was in a garden in the future, and .....
14. An ancient Egyptian image with the body of a man's head, a ram's head, or a hawk's head
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.
16. Which new guests joined the party for dinner the following week?
17. Catastrophe, disaster
18. What physical signs are provided that prove time is passing quickly?
19. What is the only hard evidence that a time trip was actually made in The Time Machine?
20. The world in the future looked like a giant, beautiful garden.
21. The machine time traveler had shown on Thursday was incomplete
22. How does the narrator feel about the prospect of building another Time Machine?
23. What is the name of an 8 sided shape
24. What did the narrator expect about people living 800, 000 years in the future?
25. The world the Time Traveller knows is the future is
26. How might Mrs. Myserson's imaginary trip to the past affect her present life?
27. What tragic event happens to Weena during the attack by the Morlocks?
28. What evidence do the men have that the miniature actually traveled through time? EXPLAIN and use details from the text.
29. Who was the main character in story
30. Meaning of "explicit"
31. Fill in the blank: "I won't say a word until I get some ..... into my arteries."
32. What does the Time Traveller find that confirms he has arrived back in time on the correct date?
33. Quote: "Achingly beautiful and alien, strange life-forms were arrayed in countless numbers."What do the strange life-forms represent in this context?
34. Fine white ceramic material
35. What kind of appendages does the black blob have?
36. What does the Time Traveller crave?
37. The Time Traveller walked through the narrow .....
38. What strange animal does he see?
39. The tired builders ..... home at the end of the long work day.
40. Which characters descended from lower class individuals such as construction workers?
41. Which vehicle should we take?
42. A temporary platform or floor used to build something else
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)
44. Strange people touched his face and laughed. But soon .....
45. Of what foodstuff does the diet of the Eloi consist? (from Chapter 5)
46. Synonym for investigator, detective, P.I., or sleuth.
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.
48. What is the Time Traveller about to do when the narrator returns to talk to him the next day?
49. Describe the unusual appearance of the Time Traveller.
50. Who is the only character that believes the Time Traveller?
51. What kind of meat does the Time Traveller finally deduce he saw on the table in the Morlocks' cavern?
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."
53. When was 'The Time Machine' first published?
54. What do the surface dwellers offer the Time Traveller when he intimates that he did in fact come out of the thunderstorm?
55. The Time Traveller believes in a fifthdimension.
56. What do the Morlocks eat?
57. How was the archway into the great hall of the surface dwellers decorated?
58. Which word means to fascinate or to stir up interest?
59. When determining a theme, the reader should first consider .....
60. For what object did he defend himself?