This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Time Machine – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Time Machine Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Sphinx aided as a guiding light for the Time Traveller A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. What was the narrator's perception of time while operating the Time Machine? A) Time seemed to slow down. B) Time seemed to speed up. C) Time seemed to remain normal. D) Time seemed to stop completely. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Time seemed to speed up. 3. What year does the Time Traveller report he has traveled to as recorded on the machine? A) 8049. B) 2130. C) 804, 000. D) 802, 701. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 802, 701. 4. A feeling of deep admiration for someone or something. A) Article. B) Popular. C) Effect. D) Respect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Respect. 5. I have a 6 sided shape, what is the name of the shape A) Hexagon. B) Pentagon. C) Sixagon. D) Octagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hexagon. 6. When did the biggest enlargement of the EU take place? A) 1989. B) 1957. C) 2004. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2004. 7. Where does the Time Traveller think the time machine is? A) Back on Earth. B) In the flower garden. C) In or below the sphinx statue. D) On the top of the tallest building. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In or below the sphinx statue. 8. The Morlocks are ..... A) Big and with white hair. B) Similar to the Eloi but they live underground. C) Big and with dark hair. D) Small and with white hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Small and with white hair. 9. After his third stop in the future, the Time Traveller A) Returned to his laboratory. B) Decided to make his home there. C) Stopped traveling in time forever. D) Went ahead to a different time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Returned to his laboratory. 10. People of Future ate only FruitsIdentify True or False A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 11. He ..... a match so that he could see in the dark. A) Whispered. B) Ruin. C) Pick. D) Lit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lit. 12. To tell something to someone. A) Slight. B) Vanish. C) Relate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Relate. 13. Synonym for woodworker or cabinetmaker. A) Carpenter. B) Giggle. C) Area. D) Anxious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carpenter. 14. I have a list of the most ..... records of the year. A) Awesome. B) Popular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Popular. 15. What does George bring back from the future? A) Flowers. B) Camphor. C) A giant crab. D) Weena. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flowers. 16. The following text, "The rebounding, dancing hail hung in a cloud over the machine, and drove along the ground like smoke, " is an example of ..... giving the hail human characteristics. A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Allusion. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 17. The Medical Man, the Psychologist and other friends thought that the idea of travelling in time was ..... A) Amazing. B) Boring. C) Impossible. D) Creative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Impossible. 18. How does the Time Traveler describe the little people who initially come to greet him? (chpts. 1-4) A) They are small with curly hair, bright lips, pointed chins, and mild eyes. B) They are extremely tall and bronze with superhuman strength. C) They are pale-complexioned with flaxen hair and greyish-red eyes. D) They are crab-like creatures with claws for hands and antennae. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are small with curly hair, bright lips, pointed chins, and mild eyes. 19. Once all the free food was gone, all the guests ..... A) Related. B) Vanished. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vanished. 20. Something made to happen; the result. A) Awkward. B) Effect. C) Article. D) Popular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Effect. 21. What kinds of feelings will humans continue to have, according to the narrator? A) Loneliness and apathy. B) Hatred and self-loathing. C) Tenderness and love. D) Greed and stupidity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tenderness and love. 22. What does the Editor say after the Time Traveler completes his fantastic tale? (chpts. 9-Epilogue) A) He says it's a pity the Time Traveler isn't a writer of stories. B) He says the story must be kept secret from the citizens of the world. C) He says he wants to start a committee to study the benefits of time travel. D) He says the Time Traveler is crazy and insists on calling authorities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He says it's a pity the Time Traveler isn't a writer of stories. 23. What does the Time Traveller fear will happen if he stops the machine? A) Time will freeze. B) He will be stuck in the past. C) The machine will explode. D) He will lose consciousness. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The machine will explode. 24. You shouldn't run ..... when you see a bear. A) From. B) Off. C) Away. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Away. 25. Why did Kester say he "wouldn't advise" traveling to the future? A) The children had a bad experience there. B) Nana and Mrs. Myerson might not be alive then. C) The time machine only works in the pasts. D) They might accidentally change the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The children had a bad experience there. 26. What did the narrator leave behind on the small lawn? A) The huge door of the building. B) The River Thames. C) The Time Machine. D) The White Sphinx. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Time Machine. 27. What does the narrator do when he encounters the creature in the old house? A) Runs away immediately. B) Tries to communicate with it. C) Follows it cautiously. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Follows it cautiously. 28. After the Time Traveller came out of the dining hall, he A) Sat down to eat. B) Tired to rest. C) Liked to work in gardens. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Liked to work in gardens. 29. What is the name of the Eloy that the Time Traveller rescues? A) Samantha. B) John. C) Alex. D) Weena. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weena. 30. What astronomical event does the Time Traveller witness thirty million years in the future? A) A meteor shower. B) An eclipse. C) A sunset. D) A shooting star. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An eclipse. 31. What does the Narrator have as a reminder 'that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived in the heart of Man?' A) The blueprints to building a time machine. B) A broken lever. C) A small, bronze ornament from the Green Palace. D) Wilted flowers Weena gave him. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wilted flowers Weena gave him. 32. What does the Time Traveller notice when he tests the machine for the very first time? A) A distortion or wrinkle in time. B) A sudden gust of wind from nowhere. C) The hour on clock changes in seconds. D) A strange sound from inside the machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The hour on clock changes in seconds. 33. The Time Traveller became friends with ..... A) Jane. B) Eloi. C) Weena. D) Morlocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weena. 34. Why did Weena get scared? A) Because of the fear of heights. B) Because of the cold. C) Because of the darkness. D) Because of the Morlocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because of the Morlocks. 35. What is the content focus of the story "The Time Machine" ?Refer to pg. 113 for answer. A) How bugs bug us. B) Time travel. C) Whales. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Time travel. 36. The Time Traveller believes that to exist, an object must have length, width andthickness. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 37. Describe the mood of the story during the conversation of the experiment A) The mood is critical and cynical. B) The mood is dark and morbid. C) The mood is devious and psychotic. D) The mood is relaxed and apathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The mood is critical and cynical. 38. What does the narrator say about the Time Traveller at the end of chapter 12? A) That he went to save Weena. B) That he patented his invention. C) That he has never returned. D) That he sold the time machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That he has never returned. 39. Who is narrating the The Time Machine? A) One of the dinner guests. B) Filby. C) An outside narrator. D) The Traveler himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One of the dinner guests. 40. We know this man can fix our house because he is an ..... at repairs. A) Legend. B) Scout. C) Expert. D) Fuss. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expert. 41. How does the Time Traveller drive the Morlocks away when they attack him and Weena? A) With a magic spell. B) With a sword. C) With matches and fire. D) With a shield. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With matches and fire. 42. What did the narrator feel when one of the people asked a very simple question? A) Confused. B) Happy. C) Surprised. D) Sad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sad. 43. Why is it ..... figures always think their wrong actions are actually ethical? A) Pallid. B) Malign. C) Vermin. D) Preternaturally. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Malign. 44. My friend's ..... makes everyone else laugh. A) Giggle. B) Carpenter. C) Type. D) Area. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Giggle. 45. "The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed:you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his ..... frankness." A) Lucid. B) Subtle. C) Ludicrous. D) Jocular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lucid. 46. What does the Traveler plan to explore on the machine? A) Jobs. B) Money. C) Places. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Time. 47. What does the Time Traveller compare the age to? A) Compares learning about it to African slaves learning about England. B) Compares it to the civil war. C) Compares it to when Tarzan when he is brought to the city. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compares learning about it to African slaves learning about England. 48. The Time Traveller prepares to put the levers back into the machine, what 'one little thing' does he realize he has overlooked? A) The date on the time machine is wrong. B) The absence of Weena and he cannot go back without her. C) The match box is missing, hindering him from staving off the Morlocks with fire. D) The condition of the time crystals has corroded due to exposure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The match box is missing, hindering him from staving off the Morlocks with fire. 49. What does the narrator say about the Time Traveler at the end of the Epilogue? A) That he has never returned. B) That he sold the machine. C) That he patented his invention. D) That he went to save Weena. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That he has never returned. 50. What does the Time Traveler show his friends at his dinner party? A) A miniature version of his time machine. B) A relic from the past. C) A tool from the future. D) Nothing at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A miniature version of his time machine. 51. The Native Americans have a ..... about the stars and their shapes in the sky. A) Legend. B) Scout. C) Fuss. D) Tough. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Legend. 52. The baby's crying was ..... She only stopped after two hours. A) Dexterous. B) Incessant. C) Malign. D) Uncanny. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incessant. 53. The inventor's plan to return to his own time A) Included the Morlocks. B) Included the guests. C) Included Weena. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Included Weena. 54. Which of the following does NOT describe Uncle Joseph's lab? A) There are many computers. B) There are jars of strange liquids. C) There are wires and tiny machines parts on a table. D) There are tall, green plants all around. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) There are tall, green plants all around. 55. How did Nana feel when Mrs. Myserson joined the children? A) Disappointed. B) Awkward. C) Relieved. D) Astonished. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Astonished. 56. Where Morlocks live? A) In the house. B) Underground. C) In church. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Underground. 57. Overcome by superior numbers or tactics A) Succulent. B) Slumberous. C) Outflanked. D) Exultation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Outflanked. 58. When people use the term "the future" it can represent the past or things that have not yet happened. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 59. This is the ..... of sneaker I use for running. A) Giggle. B) Carpenter. C) Area. D) Type. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Type. 60. In what year does the story begin? A) 2018. B) 2005. C) 790 B.C. D) 1895. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1895. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesThe Time Machine Quiz 1The Time Machine Quiz 2The Time Machine Quiz 3The Time Machine Quiz 4The 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