This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Time Machine – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Time Machine Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the electricity stopped working we had to ..... a match. A) Light. B) Have. C) Play. D) Watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Light. 2. The Time Traveller feared the night because A) Soon there would be no moon. B) He had no place to sleep. C) The Morlocks came out in the dark. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Morlocks came out in the dark. 3. Synonym for gymnast or tumbler. A) Area. B) Carpenter. C) Anxious. D) Acrobat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acrobat. 4. In an earlier time, the Green Palace was A) A castle. B) A museum. C) A school. D) A store. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A museum. 5. In "The Time Machine, " the Time Traveler is ..... by traveling to the future; it fascinates him. A) Attempted. B) Intrigued. C) Vanished. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intrigued. 6. The Time Traveller wanted to go to the Green Palace because A) It looked like a building he once knew. B) He wanted to find some tools. C) He thought it would be a safe place. D) He was curious about it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He thought it would be a safe place. 7. The time when something happens. A) Attempt. B) Vanish. C) Moment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moment. 8. What are the machines for? A) Now and past. B) Past and future. C) Now and future. D) Weekends and future. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past and future. 9. One theme of the novel is that humankind will weaken if it depends too much on A) Money and politics. B) Exploitation and technology. C) War and conquest. D) Philosophy and pleasure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exploitation and technology. 10. The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest. What is being personified? A) The forest. B) The wind. C) A person whispering. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The wind. 11. How does the Time Traveller describe the strange creature he encounters in a colossal ruin near the great hall? A) He sees a great serpent with bright yellow eyes and huge fangs. B) He sees a huge spider-like creature with large claws, long antennae, and many legs. C) He sees a dull white, ape-like creature with grayish-red eyes. D) He sees a seven-foot man-like creature covered with fur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He sees a dull white, ape-like creature with grayish-red eyes. 12. There were hardly any carvings on any monuments.Identify True or False A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 13. What do the creatures offer the Time Traveller when he indicates that he did in fact come out of the thunderstorm? A) Berries. B) Flowers. C) Nuts. D) Fruit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flowers. 14. Wild, rough land. A) Flutter. B) Scoop. C) Stallion. D) Wilderness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wilderness. 15. He is very popular. He finds it easy to ..... friends. A) Have. B) Make. C) Help. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make. 16. What color were the Morlocks? A) White. B) Black. C) Yellow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) White. 17. What did the narrator see when he reached the lawn? A) The silver tree. B) The flowering bushes. C) The Time Machine. D) The White Sphinx. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Time Machine. 18. What theory did the narrator develop about the future world? A) Communism. B) Anarchy. C) Capitalism. D) Socialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Communism. 19. Very thin; hollow-cheeked A) Hypothesis. B) Receded. C) Gaunt. D) Mace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gaunt. 20. The Eloi forced the Morlocks ..... underground. A) Living. B) Live. C) To live. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To live. 21. What were the relations between the Eloi and the Morlocks in the past? A) Cooperative. B) Happy. C) Friendly. D) Unfriendly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unfriendly. 22. Why do the people at the dinner party doubt the Time Traveller's story? A) Someone said the T.T. was caught telling lies. B) T.T. told the Medical Man he was unsure. C) He has a strange laugh while telling the story. D) He had a history of playing pranks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He had a history of playing pranks. 23. A person sent out ahead to gather information. A) Scout. B) Tough. C) Expert. D) Cheerful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scout. 24. You introduce people who already know each other. A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 25. Quote: "The Time Traveller observed that the Eloi were like children, living a carefree life in a paradise."What do the Eloi symbolize in the allegory? A) The decline of human intelligence. B) The working class and laborers. C) The loss of childhood innocence. D) A utopian society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The decline of human intelligence. 26. Something that does not work or succeed A) Panic. B) Failure. C) Suppose. D) Hardly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Failure. 27. What is the author's purpose for writing this text?Refer to p. 113 for this answer. A) To persuade the reader. B) To inform the reader. C) To entertain the reader. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To entertain the reader. 28. Synonym for kind, sort, or style. A) Carpenter. B) Giggle. C) Area. D) Type. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Type. 29. What does the narrator represent in The Time Machine? A) A time traveler. B) A listener and attentive reader. C) A childlike person. D) A scientist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A listener and attentive reader. 30. When discussing time travel the following are mentioned:the Battle of Hastings, Homer, and Plato. These are all ..... to historical things or people. A) Allusions. B) Metaphors. C) Similes. D) Aliterations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusions. 31. Click on the right description of the people from the future: A) They had straight hair, they spoke loudly and argued. B) They had wavy hair, they smiled and they threw flowers at the Time Traveller. C) They wore uniforms, they observed the Time Traveller closely and touched him. D) They had long hair, they asked a lot of questions and they seemed unwelcoming. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They had wavy hair, they smiled and they threw flowers at the Time Traveller. 32. What colors are the Morlocks eyes? A) Blue/Green. B) White/Blue. C) White/Red. D) Red/Grey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red/Grey. 33. How does the narrator feel when he encounters the creature in the old house? A) Curious. B) Terrified. C) Indifferent. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Terrified. 34. According to one view, the shapes on the hill could have been A) Ghosts. B) Animals smoke. C) Smoke rings. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ghosts. 35. How do the creatures react to the Time Traveller's arrival? A) They just stare at him. B) They run from him. C) They worship him. D) They welcome him. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They welcome him. 36. Where does the Time Traveller fear he might accidentally end up when he stops? A) In a lava pit. B) Inside a solid object. C) Above an ocean. D) In a garbage dump. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inside a solid object. 37. Which event from the story really happened? A) Mrs. Myserson used the time machine to go to Germany. B) Grace and Nana visited The Gambia. C) The children traveled to the future. D) Nana and the children took a trip to Trinidad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grace and Nana visited The Gambia. 38. As time passes faster, what happens to the sun? A) It gets smaller. B) It stops moving. C) It becomes dimmer. D) It moves quickly across the sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It stops moving. 39. How does George keep the Morlocks back while he's underground? A) He sets fire to a torch. B) He is too strong. C) He yells at them. D) He threatens to hurt Weena. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He sets fire to a torch. 40. How does the narrator feel when he realizes his Time Machine is missing? A) Happy. B) Worried. C) Bored. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Worried. 41. Can theme be found in fiction and nonfiction? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 42. Moved back; retreated A) Mace. B) Gaunt. C) Hypothesis. D) Receded. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Receded. 43. The author probably wrote this story to A) Persuade children to be inventors. B) Show how to invent a time machine. C) Tell an interesting story about an invention. D) Show that children and adults can be inventors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tell an interesting story about an invention. 44. What, according to the narrator in the Epilogue, is likely to cause the downfall of humanity? A) Greed. B) Technological advances. C) Pollution. D) Unemployment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Technological advances. 45. Which character is an argumentative redhead? A) The psychologist. B) The medical man. C) The provincial mayor. D) Filby. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Filby. 46. The large hall in which the little people lived A) Was well kept. B) Was familiar. C) Was poorly kept. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was poorly kept. 47. Yesterday we went to the circus to see the ..... and the clowns. A) Acrobat. B) Anxious. C) Area. D) Carpenter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acrobat. 48. Inside the well, there are machines and it smells ..... A) Like smoke. B) Like fruit. C) Like humid soil. D) Like blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Like blood. 49. The traveler saw ..... creature like sky which dispersed over some hillocks A) Butterfly like. B) Crab like. C) None of this. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Butterfly like. 50. What was the timetraveller only condition to tell the story A) Not interruptions. B) Not meat. C) Not questioning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not interruptions. 51. What type of text is "The Time Machine" ?Refer to p. 113 for this answer. A) Fiction. B) Non-fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fiction. 52. What do the Morlocks take from the Time Traveller's pocket? A) The lever to the Time Machine. B) A pocket watch. C) The flowers Weena gave him. D) A box of matches. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A box of matches. 53. What did you conclude about Mrs. Myserson 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. 54. Why are the Morlocks able to attack the Time Traveller when he sleeps by the fire? A) He has no weapons. B) He provokes them. C) They can easily defeat him. D) The fire burns out. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The fire burns out. 55. The Time Traveler plans to ..... his experiences traveling through time to his friends. A) Attempt. B) Slight. C) Relate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Relate. 56. How many times did the Time Traveler see "Morlocks put their heads down in a kind of agony and rush into the flames" ? (from Chapter 9) A) Three. B) Four. C) One. D) Ten billion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Three. 57. A well written theme statement includes character's names and the author. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 58. Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic. What is being personified? A) Time. B) The clock. C) The room. D) Tim. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time. 59. What animal did the narrator see running out of the bushes? A) Rabbit. B) Fox. C) Deer. D) Squirrel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deer. 60. When the Time Traveler returns home, why does the Time Machine land in a different place than it had left? (chpts. 9-Epilogue) A) The velocity of passing time has propelled the machine physically forward. B) It lands in a different spot because it had been moved by the Morlocks. C) The orbit of the Earth has changed. D) The machine skids to a stop when the Time Traveler lands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It lands in a different spot because it had been moved by the Morlocks. ← 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 9The Time Machine Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books