This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Time Machine – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Time Machine Quiz 13 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The inventor knew this machine was working when? A) The machine made a somersault. B) The workroom looked different. C) The time on the clock changed. D) He found himself in another room. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The time on the clock changed. 2. What do the Morlocks look like? A) Black ape with strange red eyes. B) White ape with strange greyish-red eyes. C) White ape with strange greyed-red eyes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) White ape with strange greyish-red eyes. 3. Why is the Time Traveller afraid to stop the Time Machine while it is in use? A) Because he may end up in a completely different place. B) Because it may break if stopped too suddenly. C) Because it may collide with another mass. D) Because he enjoys riding it too much. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because it may collide with another mass. 4. It is important, for safety reason, to ..... strap yourself in your seat when you go for a drive in the car. A) Tie. B) Strap. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strap. 5. What is the name of the device used for time travel in 'The Time Machine'? A) Chrono Machine. B) Time Machine. C) Temporal Transporter. D) Time Traveler. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Time Machine. 6. Is the Henderson family aboard? A) On the train. B) In a foreign country. C) Above deck. D) Already gone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) On the train. 7. What did the narrator feel when the people didn't try to speak to him but simply stood smiling and speaking softly to each other? A) Confused. B) Happy. C) Angry. D) Surprised. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Surprised. 8. The time traveler is not worried when the little people of the future touch him when he first arrives. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. What do the men see when the Psychologist presses the lever on the Time Machine? (chpts. 1-4) A) The Time Machine explodes in a cloud of smoke. B) The model disappears before their eyes. C) The Psychologist disappears before their eyes. D) Nothing happens. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The model disappears before their eyes. 10. What did the narrator feel for a moment when the question about coming from the sun was asked? A) Sadness. B) Confusion. C) Anger. D) Excitement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sadness. 11. Certain medicines are ..... made from plants. A) Remind. B) Actually. C) Strain. D) Trudge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Actually. 12. How does the Time Traveller finally escape the Morlocks? A) Using a hidden passage under the Sphinx. B) Manipulating the Morlocks' fear of light. C) By distracting them with advanced tech. D) By fighting them off and disappearing into time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By fighting them off and disappearing into time. 13. Inside the Palace, Weena and the Time Traveller A) Found many beautiful paintings. B) Found some huge machines. C) Found lots of little people. D) Found shining walls. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Found some huge machines. 14. Light, barely perceptible A) Switchback. B) Faint. C) Scaffolding. D) Velocity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Faint. 15. What does the Time Traveller use as a weapon against the Morlocks? A) The time machine. B) Lever. C) Stick. D) Weena. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lever. 16. Which of these items does the Time Traveller NOT get from the Palace of Green Porcelain? A) Sulfur. B) Lever. C) Matches. D) Camphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sulfur. 17. I ..... ignored his pleas for mercy. No escape for the poor soul! A) Incessant. B) Pallid. C) Dexterous. D) Steadfastly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Steadfastly. 18. The word "profile" has several meanings. Using its context, choose the meaning that is MOST LIKELY meant in this passage from The Time Machine. "The Medical Man and the Provincial Mayer watched him in PROFILE from the right, the Psychologist to the left." A) A feeling of caution and fear. B) To create a picture of someone. C) An image as seen from the side. D) To preset an analysis or description. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An image as seen from the side. 19. Which characters are in conflict with each other? A) The emperor and his servant. B) The servant and the flying man. C) The flying man and himself. D) The emperor and the flying man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The emperor and the flying man. 20. What is the main theme of 'The Time Machine'? A) Time travel. B) Historical events. C) Space exploration. D) Alternate dimensions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time travel. 21. What did the main character see in the valley? A) Antique castle. B) Field of poppies. C) Beautiful fountain. D) White monkey-like creature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) White monkey-like creature. 22. Fill in the blank: "Fruit, by the by, was all their diet. These people of the remote future were strict vegetarians, and while I was with them, in spite of some carnal cravings, I had to be ..... also." A) Frugivorous. B) Spasmodic. C) Peptone. D) Carnivorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frugivorous. 23. How far into the future is he now? A) A few years. B) A couple of hundred years. C) A few thounsand years. D) Millions of years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Millions of years. 24. How does George meet Weena? A) She introduces herself to him. B) He saves her from drowning. C) He finds her sleeping. D) He saves her from the Morlocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He saves her from drowning. 25. What reason does the Time Traveller give for the weakness of the new creatures? A) There is no room for exercise. B) Life became too comfortable. C) It is popular to become weak. D) There is too much food available. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life became too comfortable. 26. "Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ..... the conditions of life ..... the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure ..... had gone steadily on to a climax ..... And the harvest was what I saw." A) Indolent. B) Tentative. C) Petulance. D) Ameliorating. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ameliorating. 27. What causes the Morlocks to run away in the forest? A) The Time Traveller scares them. B) Forest fire. C) Weena scares them. D) The Time Traveller yells at them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Forest fire. 28. Where is the European Comission based. A) In Strasbourg. B) In Berlin. C) In Brussels. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In Brussels. 29. What does the narrator consider doing if he can't find his Time Machine? A) Giving up and going home. B) Building another Time Machine. C) Asking for help from the little people. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Building another Time Machine. 30. Delicate and breakable A) Exquisite. B) Posterity. C) Fragile. D) Parapet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fragile. 31. The ..... when the Time Traveler pulls the lever is that he travels through time. A) Attempt. B) Philosopher. C) Consequence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consequence. 32. The Time Traveller A) Asked the narrator to come with him on a trip. B) Learned a great deal on his journey. C) Would learn little from his journeys to come. D) Wasted his time traveling into the future. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Learned a great deal on his journey. 33. The Time Traveler saves a woman named ..... A) Wyatt. B) Weezer. C) Weena. D) Wynona. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weena. 34. What did Weena do when she first saw the bon fire A) She was terrified. B) She wanted to run to it and play with it. C) She grabbed some marshmallows and made smores. D) She began to dance around the fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She wanted to run to it and play with it. 35. Why was the time traveler machine an innovative machine? A) It could travel up and down. B) It could travel forward and backwards. C) It could travel in any direction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It could travel in any direction. 36. When the Time traveller returns to the dinner table the only thing he wants is ..... to eat. A) Chicken. B) Mutton. C) Pork. D) Beef. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutton. 37. Who was the one telling story jokes A) The Doctor. B) The timetraveller. C) The journalist. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The journalist. 38. Who are the pursuers of the time traveler and Weena in The Time Machine? A) The Eloi. B) The Morlocks. C) The time machine. D) The narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The time machine. 39. Where does George introduce his concept of time travel? A) At his weekly dinner party. B) In his garden. C) In the future. D) At a conference. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At his weekly dinner party. 40. Extremely horrible being or actions A) Abominations. B) Diminishing. C) Uncanny. D) Thrice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abominations. 41. The Time Traveller wanted to go the Green Place because A) He thought it would be safe place. B) He wanted to find some tools. C) He was curious about it. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He thought it would be safe place. 42. Fill in the blank: "As I stared at this sinister ..... crawling towards me, I felt a tickling on my cheek as though a fly had lighted on me." A) Spasmodic. B) Peptone. C) Mutton. D) Apparition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apparition. 43. How did the Eloi react to his demands when he went to the grey building? A) They panicked. B) They are sleepy and don't understand what he is talking about. C) They started fighting. D) They bite him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are sleepy and don't understand what he is talking about. 44. Quote: "The Time Machine was inside and its seat was down."What does the Time Machine symbolize in this context? A) A vehicle for exploring the human psyche. B) The passage of time itself. C) A tool for physical travel. D) An escape from reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The passage of time itself. 45. The Time Traveler has been waiting for the ..... he will travel in time. A) Philosopher. B) Consequence. C) Moment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moment. 46. Stumbling awkwardly A) Thrice. B) Blundering. C) Bewilderment. D) Abominations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blundering. 47. What best describes the land of the little people? (chpts. 1-4) A) It is a huge desert with a mountain range in the far distance. B) The land is filled with green plants and trees, huge amounts of flowers, and there are ruins in the distance. C) The natural landscape is masked by huge glass buildings and extensive roads. D) It is a vast wasteland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The land is filled with green plants and trees, huge amounts of flowers, and there are ruins in the distance. 48. What happens to the sun, stars, and earth as the Time Traveller travels? A) He notices the variations of day to night are getting slower. It gets gradually slower until the sun stopped setting altogether. B) He notices the variations of day to night are getting faster. So fast that the moon gets closer. C) He notices nothing in particular, every looks the same. D) The seasons no longer exist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He notices the variations of day to night are getting slower. It gets gradually slower until the sun stopped setting altogether. 49. What sensation did the narrator experience when operating the Time Machine? A) A feeling of excitement and joy. B) A sensation of falling and confusion. C) A sense of great speed and movement. D) A feeling of being rooted to the spot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A sensation of falling and confusion. 50. How does the Time Traveller first demonstrate the time machine? A) He shows a visual rendering of what it can do. B) He sends the narrator on a trip in it. C) He opens it up. D) He uses a smaller model. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He uses a smaller model. 51. An instrument is a tool that gives careful measurements. A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 52. What conclusions does the Time Traveller come up with when he drops a piece of paper in a well? A) That there is a black hole and he must be careful not to fall in. B) The paper is sucked down immediately. He takes this to mean the wells are a ventilation system that is partly responsible for the lack of disease among the people. C) He believes that this is where the nuclear bomb hit that destroyed the planet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The paper is sucked down immediately. He takes this to mean the wells are a ventilation system that is partly responsible for the lack of disease among the people. 53. During his travel into the future, the Time Traveller noticed that ..... A) People had become shorter. B) Animals had disappeared. C) Buildings had grown taller. D) His own house had been torn down. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buildings had grown taller. 54. Who composed the European anthem? A) The Beatles. B) Beethoven. C) Bach. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beethoven. 55. What does the narrator do when he finds the little people sleeping in the hall? A) Joins them for a nap. B) Asks them politely for help. C) Wakes them up and demands information about his Time Machine. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wakes them up and demands information about his Time Machine. 56. How does the narrator feel after waking up from his nap? A) Anxious. B) Relaxed. C) Energized. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relaxed. 57. What happens when the Time Traveller enters the pedestal to inspect the machine? A) He discovers the source of the fuel leak that trapped him there. B) The machine activates unexpectedly. C) The Morlocks ambush him. D) The pedestal snaps. E) Both c and d. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Both c and d. 58. Which university is associated with 'The Time Machine'? A) University of Cambridge. B) University of Oxford. C) University of Edinburgh. D) University of London. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) University of London. 59. How does the Time Traveler determine that the time machine was taken into the base of the Sphinx? (from Chapter 5) A) He smells burnt metal. B) He can see it through the windows in the base of the statue. C) The Eloi read him a note they found. D) He finds marks and footprints. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He finds marks and footprints. 60. We heard the little boy ..... when he fell off his bicycle. A) Flutter. B) Stallion. C) Wail. D) Wilderness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wail. ← 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