This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Time Machine – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Time Machine Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing he was making happy flowers. What is being personified? A) The gardener. B) The flowers. C) The crops. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The flowers. 2. What is the name of the second book in the 'Time Machine' series by H.G. Wells? A) The Time Ships. B) The Time Machine Returns. C) The Time Traveler's Wife. D) The Time Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Time Ships. 3. What is the setting of the future in The Time Machine? A) A utopian society. B) A deserted island. C) A dystopian society. D) A medieval kingdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A medieval kingdom. 4. The little people A) Ate only fruits which were not familiar to the Time Traveller. B) Enjoyed meals of many different kinds of meat and fish. C) Did not eat with spoons and forks. D) Liked to picnic in the fields. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ate only fruits which were not familiar to the Time Traveller. 5. Synonym for rough, harsh, gruff, or husky, A) Janitor. B) Hoarse. C) Detective. D) Canvas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hoarse. 6. Who entered the laboratory as the Time Machine started to work? A) Mrs. Watchett. B) The narrator's son. C) Mr. Filby. D) A stranger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mrs. Watchett. 7. The bars on the Time Machie were important because A) They measured time very carefully. B) They were the Time Traveller's only protection. C) They started and controlled the machine. D) They were special decorations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They started and controlled the machine. 8. What chapter dose the time traveller lose his time machine A) Chapter II. B) Chapter IV. C) Chapter I. D) Chapter III. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chapter IV. 9. What was happening when the TT landed? A) Wind storm. B) Thunderstorm. C) Snowstorm. D) Lightening. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thunderstorm. 10. What do you mean by time travelers? A) People who can travel in different time of the future or past. B) People who write books. C) People who can travel in different time of the future or past. D) People who study the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People who can travel in different time of the future or past. 11. How does the Time Traveller meet Weena? A) She introduces herself to him. B) He saved her from the Morlocks. C) He bumped into her on the street. D) He saves her from drowning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He saves her from drowning. 12. What is the name of the creatures who live above ground? A) Morlocks. B) Eloi. C) Weena. D) Porcelains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eloi. 13. The bars on the Time Machine were important because A) They measured time very carefully. B) They w3ere the Time Travellers only protection. C) They started and controlled the machine. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They started and controlled the machine. 14. Camera, corner, room A) Disappear. B) Cry. C) Chamber. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chamber. 15. How many fingers do humans have? A) 8. B) 9. C) 10. D) 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8. 16. How do the other characters know that the time traveller has been detained A) He tells them all before dinner. B) He leaves a note. C) Another guest relayed the message. D) A visitor from the past tells him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He leaves a note. 17. What kind of creatures does the Time Traveller encounter in the tunnel? A) Fairies. B) Dragons. C) Mermaids. D) Morlocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Morlocks. 18. What did Grace's mother mean when she told Grace "not to leave the house in shambles" ? A) Don't make a mess. B) Don't leave Nana alone. C) Don't have any friends over. D) Don't lose anything. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Don't make a mess. 19. The Time Traveller planned to sleep A) In the open space beyond the woods. B) In the middle of the dark woods. C) In the base of the statue. D) In the huge Green Palace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the open space beyond the woods. 20. The Morlocks are afraid of the ..... A) Dark. B) Eloi. C) Light. D) Machines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Light. 21. The girl reseats herself. A) To look away from. B) To sit down again. C) To think about. D) To feel bad about. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To sit down again. 22. The future people slept in a communal hall every night. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 23. What was the narrator's initial reaction when the people didn't try to speak to him? A) Fear. B) Anger. C) Excitement. D) Surprise. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Surprise. 24. Why does the Time Traveller break a lever off one of the machines he discovers? A) A symbolic act of defiance in the face of injustice. B) As a misguided attempt at sabotage the Eloi. C) A desperate attempt to communicate with the Morlocks. D) As a weapon against the Morlocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) As a weapon against the Morlocks. 25. What is the name of the protagonist in 'The Time Machine'? A) The Time Jumper. B) The Time Explorer. C) The Time Traveller. D) The Time Voyager. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Time Traveller. 26. What do the Eloi call the period of the waning moon? A) The light of the dark black night. B) The dark nights. C) Pink Moon. D) Dark side of the moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The dark nights. 27. Showing unnecessary or excessive attention to someone or something. A) Fuss. B) Legend. C) Tough. D) Cheerful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fuss. 28. After the Time Traveller came out of the dinning hall, he A) Sat down to eat. B) Tried to rest. C) Went exploring. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Went exploring. 29. Fill in the correct vocabulary word: "But before the balloons, save for ..... jumping and the inequalities of the surface, man had no freedom of vertical movement." A) Frugivorous. B) Spasmodic. C) Carnivorous. D) Mutton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spasmodic. 30. The 'Where' is ..... A) The time the action takes place. B) The place the action in the text takes place or the setting. C) Just a place. D) What the who/subject does. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The place the action in the text takes place or the setting. 31. What does the Time Traveller find with a camera and a knapsack when the narrator returns to him? A) A dinosaur. B) A time machine. C) A spaceship. D) A treasure map. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A time machine. 32. Little ..... scurried about the floor. A) Calamity. B) Vermin. C) Insidious. D) Discord. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vermin. 33. Gary's voice was ..... from cheering at the football game. A) Janitor. B) Statement. C) Hoarse. D) Detective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hoarse. 34. The 'who/subject' is ..... A) The person or thing a text or article is about. B) What happens in the article or text. C) Where the stuff takes place. D) The date the article is happening. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The person or thing a text or article is about. 35. We watched the flag ..... in the breeze. A) Wilderness. B) Flutter. C) Wail. D) Scoop. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flutter. 36. The next morning, the Time Traveller A) Was thinking more clearly. B) Found the Time Machine. C) Decided to stay in the future. D) Built himself a small house. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was thinking more clearly. 37. What reaction does the Time Traveller receive when he suggests opening the doors to the bronze pedestal? A) The Eloi want to help him. B) The Eloi ignore him and go about their business. C) The Eloi begin banging on the doors. D) The Eloi become visibly upset. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Eloi become visibly upset. 38. What is the most likely meaning of indistinct as it is used in this passage from The Time Machine? " ..... and the little machine suddenly swung around, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost ..... " A) Unable to remain still. B) Not clearly visible. C) Increasingly bright. D) Agitated in its movements. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not clearly visible. 39. Who is the unknown man that is quiet, shy, and has a beard who attends the dinner with the other men? A) Unknown at this point. B) Another doctor. C) The lawyer. D) The time traveller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unknown at this point. 40. Read the sentence and answer the question that follows. But before the balloons, save for the spasmodic jumping and the inequalities of the surface, man had no freedom of vertical movement. Based on the sentence above, what do you think spasmodic means? A) Occurring or done in brief irregular burst. B) A sudden involuntary contraction. C) A streamlined, smooth movement. D) A canned meat product made mostly from ham. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Occurring or done in brief irregular burst. 41. According to the Time Traveler, what is the Fourth Dimension? A) Time. B) Space. C) Geometry. D) Length, breadth, and thickness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time. 42. How many days was the traveler away? A) 8. B) 4. C) 9. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8. 43. How was the archway into the great hall decorated? A) With carvings. B) With faux finish. C) With streamers. D) With garlands of flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With carvings. 44. What is the Palace of Green Porcelain? A) A museum. B) The Morlocks' lair. C) The Time Traveller's home. D) The ruins of the 21st century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A museum. 45. What was he given to eat when he stopped time travelling A) Other people. B) Fruit. C) Eggs. D) Raw meat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fruit. 46. Into what year does the Time Traveller estimate he has arrived? A) 800, 000 C.E. B) 1 billion C.E. C) He does not know the time. D) 50, 000 B.C.E. E) 300, 000 B.C.E. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 800, 000 C.E. 47. Antonym for comfortable. A) Popular. B) Awkward. C) Fortunate. D) Effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Awkward. 48. First, the Time Traveller discovered the tracks in the grass. Then, he banged on the base of the statue. Next, A) He decided to learn more about the future world by exploring. B) He went back to the dining hall to talk to the little people. C) He went hunting in the hills. D) He found a new place to rest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He decided to learn more about the future world by exploring. 49. I'm tired. Let's stop ..... A) Eat. B) To eat. C) To rest. D) Rest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To rest. 50. Discuss the character development in Chapter 4. A) Chapter 4 is all about the side characters and their development, not the protagonist. B) The character development in Chapter 4 revolves around the protagonist's internal conflict and growth. C) The character development in Chapter 4 focuses on the weather and its impact on the setting. D) In Chapter 4, the character development is mainly about the protagonist's love life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The character development in Chapter 4 revolves around the protagonist's internal conflict and growth. 51. How ols is Hale? A) 12. B) 13. C) 14. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 13. 52. The car that was being towed was connected to the truck by a heavy ..... A) Rope. B) Cable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cable. 53. This can ..... our plans. A) Disappeared. B) Ruin. C) Pick. D) Lit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ruin. 54. The creature in the ruins A) Spoke to the Time Traveller. B) Disappeared down a well. C) Stayed in the hall to work. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disappeared down a well. 55. Fill in the blank: "I seemed to see a ghostly, indistinct figure sitting in a whirling made of black and brass for a moment ..... but this ..... vanished as I rubbed my eyes." A) Phantasm. B) Steadfastly. C) Mutton. D) Bewilderment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phantasm. 56. How does George learn about the fate of mankind after the bombing? A) The Morlocks. B) Books. C) The rings. D) The Eloi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rings. 57. Why is it significant that the moon is starting to wane in Chapter 7? (from Chapter 7) A) Because the Morlocks feed off lunar energy. B) None of the above. C) Because the nights will be darker. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because the nights will be darker. 58. Messing around with time could have serious ..... for the present or future. A) Consequences. B) Attempts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consequences. 59. Why did the Time Traveller enter the world of the Morlocks? A) He fell down there accidentally. B) He wants to retrieve the time machine. C) The Eloi forced him to go there. D) Weena said it was a nice place. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He wants to retrieve the time machine. 60. What does the Time Traveller find in the large building he calls the Palace of Green Porcelain? A) A library. B) A castle. C) A museum. D) To zoo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A museum. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesThe Time Machine Quiz 1The Time Machine Quiz 2The Time Machine Quiz 4The Time Machine Quiz 5The Time Machine Quiz 6The Time Machine Quiz 7The Time Machine Quiz 8The Time Machine Quiz 9The Time Machine Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books