This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Time Machine – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Time Machine Quiz 15 (44 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How do the Morlocks hunt the Eloi? A) With traps. B) With poisonous arrows. C) With nets. D) In the dark. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In the dark. 2. The time traveler was travelling at fast or prodigious speed A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 3. What, at the end of the chapter about the forest fire, is described as an "overwhelming calamity" ? (from Chapter 9) A) The destruction of the Time Machine. B) The destruction of the Morlocks. C) Weena's death. D) The destruction of the forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weena's death. 4. The little creature with whom the Time Traveller was friendly with was Weena A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. What is the significance of the time machine in Chapter 4? A) It signifies the importance of punctuality in the story. B) It symbolizes the ability to travel through time and explore different periods of history. C) It represents the protagonist's love for antique objects. D) It is a metaphor for the character's desire to escape reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It symbolizes the ability to travel through time and explore different periods of history. 6. He walked up a hill, but when he came back down ..... A) Ten o'clock and stopped a moment later at half past three!. B) They weren't interested in him any more. C) He couldn's see his time machine in the garden. D) The machine turned over and he fell out. E) He could see huge buildings and a great statue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He couldn's see his time machine in the garden. 7. Select the antonyms A) Big huge. B) Small tiny. C) Hot cold. D) Happy cheerful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hot cold. 8. A small remaining, or leftover, piece A) Foliage. B) Thrice. C) Remnant. D) Mace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Remnant. 9. What does the Time Traveller call this "new age" ? A) The New Renaissance. B) The Golden Age. C) The Global Age. D) The Contemporary Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Golden Age. 10. When the machine comes to a stop the first time, it does not throw him from the machine, or come to a crashing stop. Instead, he experiences a ..... bump. A) Intrigue. B) Slight. C) Vanish. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slight. 11. What did the narrator observe about the people in the future world? A) They were all strong and active. B) They were all weak and passive. C) They were all intelligent and efficient. D) They were all unintelligent and inefficient. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They were all weak and passive. 12. Basic; elementary A) Rudimentary. B) Fluctuating. C) Elusive. D) Solstice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rudimentary. 13. Which trace of life pulled traveler attention A) Green vegetation that cover every place. B) The chirping of birds. C) The tall trees on mountain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Green vegetation that cover every place. 14. This even takes place A) In the morning. B) In the afternoon. C) In the evening. D) Late at night. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the evening. 15. Which ..... dial or hand was sweeping at the speed of seconds hand A) Thousands of days. B) Millions of days. C) Trillions of days. D) Thousand of millions of days. E) One day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thousands of days. 16. This passage takes place A) In the present. B) In the past. C) Both the present and the past. D) Both the future and the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both the future and the past. 17. A sudden strong feeling of fear or anger that causes people to act without thinking carefully A) Hardly. B) Failure. C) Suppose. D) Panic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Panic. 18. Let's go to the garden and ..... some flowers for our grandmother. A) Pick. B) Lit. C) Ruin. D) Hunt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pick. 19. What did the narrator point to when trying to describe time? A) The sun. B) The time machine. C) The stars. D) The moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The sun. 20. The ..... questioned the suspect about the robbery. A) Detective. B) Canvas. C) Hoarse. D) Janitor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Detective. 21. What did the main character do when he saw little sleeping people? A) Tried to help them. B) Tried to steal their things. C) Woke them up and asked about the time machine. D) Ran away from them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Woke them up and asked about the time machine. 22. What does the Time Traveller do that he later discovers to be an 'atrocious folly'? A) Trusting the Morlocks to give him back the Time Machine. B) Disclosing his knowledge of the future with others. C) Ignoring Weena's warnings not to climb down the well into the Morlock's caverns. D) Lighting a fire to escape from the Morlocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lighting a fire to escape from the Morlocks. 23. How does the Time Traveler save Weena? A) Going broke from buying to much Gucci. B) The bathroom. C) The Morlocks. D) From drowning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) From drowning. 24. When the Time Traveler and Weena are seeking refuge in the Palace of Green Porcelain, what is remarkable about the statue of the faun they find on their way? (from Chapter 7) A) It is made of glass. B) It lacks a head. C) It is two-headed. D) It is made of wood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It lacks a head. 25. Which was the agreed hour to start dinner? A) 8:yes pm. B) 7:00 pm. C) 6:00 pm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7:00 pm. 26. What did the main character see when he went underground? A) Old books and scrolls. B) Treasures and jewels. C) Underground stream and mushrooms. D) Machines and the smell of meat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Machines and the smell of meat. 27. Motioned or signed A) Communism. B) Gesticulated. C) Colossal. D) Interrogated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gesticulated. 28. Who has power in the future world? A) Animals. B) Eloi. C) Morlocks. D) People from the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Morlocks. 29. The friend who speaks at the beginning and end of the story says that the day after the Time Taveller tells his story, he A) Disappears along with the time machine. B) Donates his time machine to a museum. C) Destroys the time machine. D) Starts writing about his experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Disappears along with the time machine. 30. What "colossal figure" does the TT see when he lands? A) White Sphinx. B) Giant sun. C) A surface dweller. D) Large building with an archway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) White Sphinx. 31. Who is author the story The Time machine? A) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. B) H.H. Wells. C) H.G. Wells. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) H.G. Wells. 32. What does Meg look like? A) She is slim and tall. She has got short blonde hair. B) She is plump and tall. She has got wavy black hair. C) She is short and slim. She has got long straight hair. D) She is slim and tall. She has got wavy brown hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She is slim and tall. She has got wavy brown hair. 33. What animal do the Morlocks look like? A) Monkey. B) Zebra. C) Apes. D) Pick your nose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apes. 34. What is the main difference between THEME and MAIN IDEA. A) Theme is a universal lesson and main idea is what a story is about. B) Theme is what a story is about and main idea is the universal lesson it teaches. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme is a universal lesson and main idea is what a story is about. 35. What allows him to escape the Morlocks? (from Chapter 6) A) Fire. B) Shouting as loudly as he can. C) Weena comes with reinforcements. D) His sidearm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fire. 36. Where does the Time Traveler store the object(s) he removes from the time machine? (from Chapter 4) A) In his pocket. B) In his knapsack. C) In a hole in the ground. D) Around his wrist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In his pocket. 37. What is Bill's father's job? A) Architect. B) Science teacher. C) Engineer. D) Runner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Engineer. 38. Slippery; difficult to catch A) Solstice. B) Rudimentary. C) Fluctuating. D) Elusive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elusive. 39. Where does the Time Traveller think the inhabitants of the land believe he came from? A) The future through a wormhole instead of a time machine. B) Another dimension in space-time. C) Underground where the Morlocks now live. D) From the sun in a thunderstorm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) From the sun in a thunderstorm. 40. What "vestige" did the Time Traveller show the guests on Earth? A) Two pieces of fruit. B) Two vegetables. C) Two letters. D) Two flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two flowers. 41. The empty bowl was ..... that she enjoyed eating the chocolate pudding. A) Janitor. B) Hoarse. C) Proof. D) Statement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proof. 42. Liked by others. A) Effect. B) Awkward. C) Popular. D) Article. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Popular. 43. What does Weena fear most? A) Swimming. B) Darkness. C) Being alone. D) Matches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Darkness. 44. What did the little people spend most of their time doing? A) Playing and bathing in the river. B) Eating fruit and sleeping. C) Repairing and replacing clothes. D) Working in shops and factories. 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