This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Time Machine – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Time Machine Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is one condition the Time Traveller sets before telling his story A) He asks them not to interrupt him. B) He must sleep first. C) He tells them they can't ask any questions. D) He tells them they need to eat dinner first. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He asks them not to interrupt him. 2. What is the lowest value of a coin A) 2p. B) 0p. C) £1. D) 1p. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1p. 3. The Time Traveller theorizes that the surface dwellers of the future are A) Descended from the privileged classes of his time. B) Descended from the athletes of his time. C) Descended from the workers of his time. D) Descended from the great thinkers of his time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Descended from the privileged classes of his time. 4. How does Chapter 4 set the stage for the subsequent events in The Time Machine? A) It focuses on the political landscape of the future world. B) It reveals the protagonist's true identity. C) It introduces the Morlocks and their underground world. D) It introduces a new time-traveling machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It introduces the Morlocks and their underground world. 5. Mrs. Green got a dog for company and ..... A) Wilderness. B) Flutter. C) Protection. D) Scoop. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protection. 6. In the hot summer, the ..... beneath the castle is nice and cool. A) Building. B) Well. C) Chamber. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chamber. 7. Sometimes the clouds remind me of cotton balls. A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 8. What year does the Time Traveler estimate he has traveled to before he actually reports what exact year the machine recorded? (from Chapter 4) A) 802000. B) 8049. C) 804000. D) 2194. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 802000. 9. The ..... showed a high reading of dangerous gas in the area. A) Somersault. B) Instrument. C) Cable. D) Tug. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Instrument. 10. Theory; supposition A) Gaunt. B) Receded. C) Mace. D) Hypothosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hypothosis. 11. Balloons can help us fly in different directions in space A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 12. Is there such thing as a purple squirrel A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 13. According to the story, which of the following did not show proof of the Time Traveller's journey? A) The dinner guests. B) The Time Machine. C) The white flowers. D) The Time Traveller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The dinner guests. 14. What was the name of the little woman the protagonist befriended? A) Sunny. B) Cushion. C) Weena. D) Sphinx. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weena. 15. The time traveler tries to get the little people of the future to teach him their language, but he thinks they're lazy. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 16. What do the Eloi look like? A) Tall people with nice clothes. B) Very similar to the Time Traveller. C) Little people and men and women are very similar. D) Very primitive people dressed in leather clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Little people and men and women are very similar. 17. How does the time machine work? A) The levers control forward and backward in time, the machine stays still in space. B) The levers control forward and backward in space, the button moves time forward. C) One lever moves the machine forward in time, the other controls the machine's location. D) The Time Traveller can set a specific date and time to travel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The levers control forward and backward in time, the machine stays still in space. 18. Synonym for chuckle or snicker. A) Type. B) Area. C) Giggle. D) Carpenter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Giggle. 19. Why is Weena unable to walk in the forest? (from Chapter 9) A) She falls asleep. B) She has to fangpi. C) She is injured. D) She faints. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She faints. 20. At the end of the selection, what does the narrator most likely mean when he says "I caught Filby's eye over the shoulder of the Medical Man, and he winked at me solemnly" ? A) Filby and the narrator like to play jokes on the Medical Man. B) Filby is upset and wants to relieve tension by acting playful. C) Filby is convinced that the entire demonstration is a trick. D) Filby and the narrator are planning to steel the time machine and use it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Filby is convinced that the entire demonstration is a trick. 21. What, according to the Time Traveller, was the original purpose of the Palace of Green Porcelain? A) It was their palace. B) It was their headquarters. C) It was a museum. D) It was where they conducted rituals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was a museum. 22. Roughly what year does the machine stop? A) 800, 000 B.C.E. B) 4 million C.E. C) 800, 000 C.E. D) 300, 000 B.C.E. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 800, 000 C.E. 23. How does the plot in Chapter 4 contribute to the overall story of The Time Machine? A) The plot in Chapter 4 introduces the Morlocks and creates tension for the protagonist. B) The plot in Chapter 4 is completely unrelated to the overall story. C) The plot in Chapter 4 introduces a new love interest for the protagonist. D) The plot in Chapter 4 focuses on the protagonist's childhood memories. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The plot in Chapter 4 introduces the Morlocks and creates tension for the protagonist. 24. What does the Time Traveller have trouble discerning in the creatures of 802, 701 AD? A) Relative intelligence. B) Age. C) Social class. D) Gender. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gender. 25. What did the narrator believe had happened to the Time Machine? A) It had disappeared on its own. B) The narrator had lost it. C) The little people had moved it. D) It had been stolen by animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It had been stolen by animals. 26. In the selection from The Time Machine, what happens when the Psychologist pushes the lever on the Time Machine? A) The Psychologist vanishes. B) The Time Machine Vanishes. C) Everyone shouts in fear and horror. D) The narrator grabs the machine from the table. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Time Machine Vanishes. 27. What happens when the Time Traveller stops A) He gets out and return to his guests at dinner. B) He finds himself in his lawn with his maid. C) He finds himself in a hail storm passing a statue of a white sphinx on a bronze pedestal. D) He meets past figures of history. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He finds himself in a hail storm passing a statue of a white sphinx on a bronze pedestal. 28. What fear does the Time Traveller now share with the Eloi? A) Fear of the sun. B) Fear of the Morlocks. C) Fear of water. D) Fear of spiders. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fear of the Morlocks. 29. Fill in the blank: "The Morlocks at any rate were ..... ! Even at the time, I remember wondering what large animal could have survived to furnish the red joint I saw." A) Frugivorous. B) Steadfastly. C) Spasmodic. D) Carnivorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carnivorous. 30. This use of ..... : "dusty and diary ..... hair disordered ..... a cut half-healed ..... blood-stained socks" , is the author trying to prove that the traveller passed through time. A) Allusion. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 31. Although he is in great distress over the missing Time Machine, what one fact makes the Time Traveller feel assured? A) The Morlocks have advanced tech he can use. B) He has the levers. C) He knows the machine is out of fuel. D) The machine is indestructible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He has the levers. 32. Extremely nasty; evil A) Insidious. B) Atrocious. C) Calamity. D) Camphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Atrocious. 33. When the Time Traveler travels into the future, his workshop ..... A) Vanishes. B) Relates. C) Attempts. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vanishes. 34. What characters descended from upper class individuals who do not have to work for what they have? A) Eloi. B) Morlocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eloi. 35. First, the little people crowded around the inventor, then they went to look at his Time Machine, next ..... A) The Time Traveller quickly removed the bars. B) The little people began to play with the machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Time Traveller quickly removed the bars. 36. After finding a block of sulphur in one of the galleries, what idea sets the Time Traveller's mind racing? A) He believes the terrible smell will keep the Morlocks away. B) He is going to use it to make a new time machine. C) He can use it to make gunpowder. D) He is going to make dynamite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He can use it to make gunpowder. 37. Quote: "Here then I was able to define my view of the whole story, to see things as I say, that, I never before dreamt of."What does the quote suggest about the allegorical element in the story? A) The Time Traveller's sense of adventure. B) The discovery of a new world. C) The pursuit of knowledge and understanding. D) The fear of the unknown. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The pursuit of knowledge and understanding. 38. How long does the the time traveler say his friendship with Weena will exist? A) A day. B) 2 weeks. C) A year. D) 1 week. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2 weeks. 39. Where does the Time Traveller land millions of years later? A) On Mars. B) On a different planet. C) In a black hole. D) On Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On a different planet. 40. How does Weena die in The Time Machine? A) A wildfire. B) Old age. C) Drowning. D) An axe attack. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An axe attack. 41. Where did the main character find the little sleeping people? A) In a large stone building. B) On the grass. C) In an old house. D) In the dark forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a large stone building. 42. He played with a mechanical toy. A) Works with a switch. B) Works by machine. C) Works with a string. D) Works by pushing buttons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Works by machine. 43. What did the people do when the narrator pointed to the time machine and then to himself? A) Smiled and spoke softly to each other. B) Started laughing loudly. C) Ran away. D) Covered their eyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smiled and spoke softly to each other. 44. How were the imaginary trips to The Gambia and Trinidad alike? A) Mrs. Myerson suggested both trips to the children. B) The children became frightened on both trips. C) Someone from the present time interrupted both trips. D) Nana took both trips with the children. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Someone from the present time interrupted both trips. 45. Working long hours can have a serious ..... on one's health. A) Toll. B) Effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Effect. 46. How many students are there in the 7th grade? A) Five students. B) Ten students. C) Twelve students. D) Twenty students. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Five students. 47. It's dark here, but you can see once your eyes ..... used to the dark. A) Make. B) Got. C) Get. D) Let. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Get. 48. Who did the Time Traveller rescue from the river? A) The narrator. B) Two Eloi. C) A Morlock. D) Weena. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weena. 49. How did the Time Traveller escape them? A) Weena gave him a weapon. B) They let him go. C) The Eloi saved him. D) He went up the well. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He went up the well. 50. The Time Traveller felt disappointed because A) He had journeyed into the future instead of the past. B) The people of the future were not very wise. C) There was only strange fruit to eat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The people of the future were not very wise. 51. What does the time traveller call the people from the lower world A) Morlocks. B) Weena. C) Eloi. D) Guide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Morlocks. 52. What did the Time Traveller say about his adventure? A) He told them he left his laboratory earlier in the day and traveled eight days in four hours. B) He told them he went traveled to the past and meet George Washington. C) He went downtown and had dinner with Filby. D) He ate a bad quiche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He told them he left his laboratory earlier in the day and traveled eight days in four hours. 53. Why were the little people afraid of the protagonist? A) Because he was shouting and cursing. B) Because he was carrying a match. C) Because he was shaking them. D) Because he was laughing at them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because he was shouting and cursing. 54. What horrifies the Time Traveller about the eclipse? A) The changes in the waves. B) The animals attack when the eclipse occurs. C) The silence and complete darkness. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The silence and complete darkness. 55. How might Mrs. Myerson's imaginary trip to the past affect her present life? A) She will continue to be a shut-in. B) She will travel to Germany more often. C) She might be happier in her present life. D) She will hang out with the children all the time now. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She might be happier in her present life. 56. As soon as he stopped ..... A) The machine turned over and he fell out. B) He could see huge buildings and a great statue. C) Into the ruins of a great building, and ate with them. D) Walls of his laboratory soon disappeared. E) Time traveller's head turned and the machine shook badly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The machine turned over and he fell out. 57. Initially, what does the Time Traveller see when he stops the machine in the garden? A) A garden of bright flowers. B) A group of people. C) A menacing ape-like creature. D) Ruins of an ancient civilization. E) Both c and d. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A garden of bright flowers. 58. How does chapter 3 contribute to the overall story of The Time Machine? A) Chapter 3 has no impact on the overall story. B) Chapter 3 introduces aliens from outer space. C) Chapter 3 contributes to the overall story by introducing the Eloi and Morlocks, two distinct future human species, and setting the stage for the protagonist's exploration and interaction with them. D) Chapter 3 is just a filler with no relevance to the plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chapter 3 contributes to the overall story by introducing the Eloi and Morlocks, two distinct future human species, and setting the stage for the protagonist's exploration and interaction with them. 59. What social system does the TT initially believe is in place when he lands the time machine? A) Monarchy. B) Capitalism. C) Democracy. D) Communism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Communism. 60. The inventor was almost captured when A) The fire went out. B) The woods grew light. C) He sat down to rest. D) He tried to grab Weena. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The fire went out. ← 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 7The Time Machine Quiz 8The Time Machine Quiz 9The Time Machine Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books