This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Time Machine – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Time Machine Quiz 14 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The character of the dog in the play was actually played by a person. A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 2. He was very ..... to have ben rescued in time. A) Popular. B) Effect. C) Awkward. D) Fortunate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fortunate. 3. The time traveler's machine moves around. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 4. What is Mr.P's favorite clothing store to shop at? A) J Crew. B) CVS. C) Walmart. D) Men's Warehouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) J Crew. 5. How does the narrator react when some of the little people laugh at him? A) He laughs with them. B) He becomes angry. C) He feels embarrassed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He becomes angry. 6. The Time Traveller was attacked by a giant crab. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 7. What does the Time Traveller do to scare the Morlocks? A) Lights a match. B) Uses a flashlight. C) Bangs two rocks together to create a spark. D) Yells and screams. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lights a match. 8. What are the major symbols and their significance in chapter 3? A) The significance of the symbols in chapter 3 is not important. B) There are no major symbols in chapter 3. C) The answer will vary depending on the specific symbols and their significance in chapter 3. D) The symbols in chapter 3 are irrelevant to the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The answer will vary depending on the specific symbols and their significance in chapter 3. 9. Sleeping will put a strain on your heart. A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 10. What is the time traveler's relationship with Weena like in The Time Machine? A) Indifferent. B) Strict. C) Compassionate. D) Hostile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indifferent. 11. Paul had to strap on the metal hat to protect his head. A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 12. What are the names of the childlike people the traveler meets in the future? A) Humans. B) Morlocks. C) Eloi. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eloi. 13. When you are tired from a hard day at school, you trudge home. A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 14. What happened on 9 November 1989? A) Fall of the Eiffel Tower. B) Fall of the Parthenon. C) Fall of the Berlin Wall. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fall of the Berlin Wall. 15. It doesn't feel nice to time travel-the ..... A) Into the ruins of a great building, and ate with them. B) Time traveller's head turned and the machine shook badly. 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: B) Time traveller's head turned and the machine shook badly. 16. What did the protagonist discover about the wells and the towers? A) They were part of an underground system. B) They were connected to the river. C) They were used for ventilation. D) They were used for bathing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were used for ventilation. 17. Overconfidence; foolhardiness A) Verdigris. B) Temerity. C) Incontinently. D) Sphinx. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temerity. 18. What are the key themes explored in Chapter 4? A) The key themes explored in Chapter 4 are identity, power, and conflict. B) Nature, animals, and weather. C) Love, friendship, and happiness. D) History, geography, and culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The key themes explored in Chapter 4 are identity, power, and conflict. 19. The most skilled players seem to ..... know where the ball will land each time. A) Malign. B) Loathed. C) Preternaturally. D) Calamity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Preternaturally. 20. What was the narrator's initial reaction to the Time Machine's operation? A) He was terrified and wanted to stop it. B) He was indifferent and uninterested. C) He was fascinated and eager to see the results. D) He was sceptical and doubted its functionality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was fascinated and eager to see the results. 21. The Moalocks got used to ..... A) Living in the darkness. B) Live in the darkness. C) Lived in the darkness. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Living in the darkness. 22. What did you conclude about Mrs. Myerson when she traveled through time with the children? A) She did not know how to make friends. B) She always enjoyed exciting adventures. C) She trusted Grace and her friends. D) She had never before used her imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She trusted Grace and her friends. 23. A system in which all goods are owned by everyone and are available to all as needed A) Communism. B) Questioning. C) Dilapidated. D) Frugivorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Communism. 24. The time traveller uses well educated men to tell about his science because A) They know what questions to ask for actual proof. B) They trust no one. C) They will give him the money he needs to build the machine. D) They trust everyone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They know what questions to ask for actual proof. 25. First, the Time Traveller noticed that one of the little people was in trouble. Then, he rescued Weena from the river A) Weena gave him a necklace of flowers. B) The Tiime Traveller went on his way. C) They both went for a swim. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Tiime Traveller went on his way. 26. Decaying, shabby A) Colossal. B) Frugivorous. C) Dilapidated. D) Interrogative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dilapidated. 27. The 'Why' is ..... A) The reason the action takes place or motivation for Who/Subject to do something. B) Not important. C) The question presented in the text. D) What the who is asking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The reason the action takes place or motivation for Who/Subject to do something. 28. Translate the word: "chamber" A) Camera. B) Ghost. C) Follow up. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Camera. 29. Synonym for custodian, caretaker, or cleaner. A) Janitor. B) Hoarse. C) Statement. D) Proof. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Janitor. 30. What clue does the Time Traveller find that leads him to believe he knows the whereabouts of the Time Machine? A) A trail of broken parts leading into the woods. B) Someone has left a note on the statue. C) A. There are grooves and footprints in the dirt in front of the bronze pedestal. D) He has heard the Eloi talking about a cave in the woods. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A. There are grooves and footprints in the dirt in front of the bronze pedestal. 31. What new creatures did the Time Traveller see? A) He sees ghost-like creatures that come out at night. B) He sees little dwarfs. C) He sees these gross like reptiles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He sees ghost-like creatures that come out at night. 32. A heavy, spiked club used in the Middle Ages as a weapon to break through armor A) Mace. B) Receded. C) Hypothesis. D) Gaunt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mace. 33. What is the Time Traveller craving when he returns from travelling through time? A) Steak. B) Chicken. C) Mutton. D) Beef. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mutton. 34. How does he plan on getting the time machine back? A) He plans to learn about their culture and language, and find clues. B) Bribing the Elois. C) He decides he must fight for it. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He plans to learn about their culture and language, and find clues. 35. The inventor was A) Not sure about time travel. B) A man who dedicated many hours to the idea of time travel. C) Returning from a trip to the past. D) Just joking with the men about traveling through time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A man who dedicated many hours to the idea of time travel. 36. Why is the Time Traveller unable to speak to the Morlocks using language he has learned? A) They don't want him to speak. B) They speak a different language than the Eloi. C) He hasn't learned any language while time travelling. D) The Morlocks don't speak. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They speak a different language than the Eloi. 37. Shortly after Weena and the Time Traveller entered the woods, A) A terrible fire broke out. B) The matches would not light. C) Three Morlocks appeared. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Three Morlocks appeared. 38. The Time Traveller agrees with the typeof mathematics taught in schools. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 39. Who patented the chairs the guests are sitting in during the discussion in "The Time Machine" ? A) The Psychologist. B) The Time Traveller. C) The Medical Man. D) The Provincial Mayor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Time Traveller. 40. Who is the author of the wizards of once A) Simon Cowell. B) Cressida Cowell. C) Michael morpurgo. D) David Walliams. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cressida Cowell. 41. In what did the boys travel? A) A kayak. B) A time machine. C) A car. D) A dogsled. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A time machine. 42. What is a synonym for apparatus? A) Device. B) A Building. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Device. 43. What does the main character decide to do if he doesn't find his time machine? A) Ask little people for help. B) Try to go back in time on foot. C) Leave and never come back. D) Stay and build another time machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stay and build another time machine. 44. To what conclusion does the Time Traveller come regarding the creature he watched vanish down a deep shaft? A) He realizes that spiders have evolved and now live underground. B) The giant creature is strong enough to carry the Time Machine away. C) The creature must belong to some underground society that lives in tunnels below. D) The serpent is what caused the little people so much fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The creature must belong to some underground society that lives in tunnels below. 45. Do the morlocks eat Elios A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 46. Very upsetting or disturbing A) Harrowing. B) Possible. C) Scholars. D) Century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harrowing. 47. It was ..... how similar the twins looked. Their own mother couldn't tell them apart sometimes! A) Uncanny. B) Loathed. C) Vestige. D) Inevitable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uncanny. 48. What does the Time Traveler do when the little people initially attempt to explore the machine? (chpts. 1-4) A) He yells and waves them away from the machine. B) He unscrews the levers that make the machine work and puts them into his pocket. C) He distracts their attention by walking away from the machine. D) He gets back into the machine and leaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He unscrews the levers that make the machine work and puts them into his pocket. 49. Weena and the Time Traveller left the Green Palace A) In the morning. B) In the afternoon. C) At night. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) At night. 50. What was the strange difference in the appearance of the people the narrator saw? A) They had small eyes and no hair on their heads. B) They had long hair and big chins. C) They had large eyes and wavy hair. D) They had no hair on their faces and small ears. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They had no hair on their faces and small ears. 51. Small common pest (such as rats) that are difficult to control A) Vermin. B) Thames. C) Lemurs. D) Acacia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vermin. 52. Who wrote "The Time Machine?" A) H.G. Wells. B) G.H.Wheels. C) H.G.Wells. D) H.G.Wells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) H.G. Wells. 53. Now that he has seen the Morlocks, what does the Time Traveller decide he must make for himself? What does he decide to find? A) Fire. B) His own bed. C) Weapons and shelter. D) Friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weapons and shelter. 54. Since there was no apparent violence, pollution, work, or pests of any kind, the creatures seemed to live in a Utopia. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 55. Reclining under the stars, what food does the Time Traveller decide that the Morlocks must be eating? A) Salad. B) Vegetables. C) They are cannibals, so other tribe members. D) Some sort of meat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are cannibals, so other tribe members. 56. What are the Morlocks afraid of? A) Earth. B) Fire. C) Water. D) Wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fire. 57. How does the author use language and imagery to describe the events in chapter 3? A) The author uses language and imagery from a different chapter. B) The author uses no language or imagery. C) The author uses vivid language and powerful imagery. D) The author uses outdated language and irrelevant imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The author uses vivid language and powerful imagery. 58. What is he worried about when traveling? A) He is afraid of seeing his future self. B) He is worried he will bump into his old girlfriend. C) He is afraid he is going to hit something when he stops and get hurt. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is afraid he is going to hit something when he stops and get hurt. 59. What did the narrator notice about the buildings in the future world? A) They were all in ruins. B) They were all made of stone and metal. C) They were all small homes. D) They were all palaces. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They were all palaces. 60. How do the Time Traveler and Weena become friends? (chpts. 5-8) A) He asks her to serve as a guide into the wilderness as he looks for his Time Machine. B) Weena's father gives her to the Time Traveler as a gift. C) Weena feels pity for him because he is alone, so she hangs out with him. D) The Time Traveler saves her from drowning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Time Traveler saves her from drowning. ← 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