This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Time Machine – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Time Machine Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following were considered great thinkers during the Victorian era? A) Hitler. B) Karl Marx. C) John F. Kennedy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Karl Marx. 2. The Time Machine had disappeared and flew back to current times on its own. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 3. Why does the Time Traveller throw his shoes away? A) A nail keeps poking him in the heel and his ankle is swollen. B) The Eloi have offered him a pair of their sandals. C) He no longer needs them. D) The distinct prints left by the shoe leave too obvious a trail for the Morlocks to follow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A nail keeps poking him in the heel and his ankle is swollen. 4. What does the time traveller wish he brought in the future A) Matches, party supplies, and kodak. B) Arms, talbaco, and medicane. C) Food, matches, filby, and flowers. D) Arms, talbaco, medicine, and kodak. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arms, talbaco, medicine, and kodak. 5. A green or bluish color formed by deposits of copper carbonates on a certain metallic surfaces A) Temerity. B) Sphinx. C) Incontinently. D) Verdigris. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verdigris. 6. What assessment does the Time Traveller make of the creatures' personalities? A) Foolish. B) Aggressive. C) Lazy. D) Answers A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lazy. 7. What color hair does the morlocks have A) Pink. B) Black. C) White. D) Blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) White. 8. Where was the first chapter of this story set? A) In the Greek temples. B) At a German scholar's office. C) At the home of the Time Traveler. D) At the battle of Hastings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) At the home of the Time Traveler. 9. Why did the Morlocks start chasing the main character? A) Because of his noise. B) Because of his height. C) Because of his bright clothes. D) Because of his smell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because of his smell. 10. Synonym for lucky. A) Popular. B) Fortunate. C) Effect. D) Awkward. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fortunate. 11. Why did the Morlocks start hunting the Eloi? A) Out of fear. B) Because of food. C) For power. D) For entertainment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because of food. 12. The ..... Eloi displayed their childlike manner through their play with flowers and constant laughter. A) Evil. B) Lucid. C) Subtle. D) Precocious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Precocious. 13. Weena and the time traveller go to the green palace to ..... A) Escape from the Eloi. B) Live together. C) Find a safer place for the Eloi. D) Look for the time machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Find a safer place for the Eloi. 14. Weena picked one up and gave ..... A) The me. B) Me. C) It me. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Me. 15. A heavy cable might be used to keep an old tree straight and steady. A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 16. What is the source of the "slumberous murmur" the Time Traveler hears in the forest? (chpts. 9-Epilogue) A) It is the sound of the only creature the Morlocks fear. B) It is the sound of a forest fire roaring. C) It is the sound of the Time Machine's engine. D) It is the sound the Eloi make when trying to scare the Morlocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is the sound of a forest fire roaring. 17. The boy was ..... about taking the test. A) Worried. B) Anxious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anxious. 18. Primitively, as through instincts A) Inevitable. B) Preternaturally. C) Interval. D) Vermin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Preternaturally. 19. After the machine was tested, the guests felt A) Happy. B) Surprised. C) Tired. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Surprised. 20. How was the archway into the great hall of the Eloi decorated? (from Chapter 4) A) With faux finish. B) With carvings. C) With Sponge Bob cartoons. D) With streamers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With carvings. 21. Fill in the blank: "They were both the new kind of journalist-very joyous, ..... young men." A) Mutton. B) Spasmodic. C) Irreverent. D) Carnivorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irreverent. 22. Keeping from harm. A) Wail. B) Protection. C) Swamp. D) Flutter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protection. 23. The Time Traveller describes the surface world of the future as A) Free from disease and harmful plants and animals. B) Barren and colorless. C) Very much like his own world. D) Filled with single-family homes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free from disease and harmful plants and animals. 24. A summary does what? A) Makes an educated guess. B) Tells an opinion. C) Nothing. D) Is a shorter way to explain a text with important information or key points. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is a shorter way to explain a text with important information or key points. 25. What happens to the Time Traveller at the end of the novel? A) He becomes a Morlock. B) He travels to the past. C) He disappears. D) He sets off again to explore time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He sets off again to explore time. 26. Fill in the blank with the correct word.We all thought the time traveler was a ..... We thought his ideas were silly. A) Genius. B) Unaccountable. C) Quack. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quack. 27. Why did the Time Traveller panic after his walk? A) His time machine is missing. B) He was being chased by a sphinx. C) He lost his wallet. D) Purple. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His time machine is missing. 28. Moving back and forth uncertainly A) Fluctuating. B) Elusive. C) Solstice. D) Rudimentary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fluctuating. 29. Chose correct order The sky was no longer ..... Overhead it was ..... South eastward it was ..... A) Blue/red and starless/it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet. B) Red and starless/blue/it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet. C) Blue/it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet /red and starless/. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blue/red and starless/it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet. 30. What does the Time Traveller find in one of the galleries that literally makes him dance? A) A box of matches. B) Canned food that is still good to eat. C) The bones of dinosaurs. D) Dynamite that still works. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A box of matches. 31. The time traveler travels how far into the future A) 800, 000 years. B) 8, 000 years. C) 800 years. D) 80, 000 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 800, 000 years. 32. What did he attempt after dinner A) Why the beings are small. B) Why the beings lived in communal housing. C) What language the beings were speaking. D) What the beings were wearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What language the beings were speaking. 33. What did the protagonist and Weena exchange as a sign of friendship? A) Necklaces of flowers. B) Kisses on the hands. C) Smiles and laughter. D) Pieces of paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Necklaces of flowers. 34. How did Weena react when the Time Traveller descended into the well? A) She cried and began pulling him. B) She waved goodbye. C) She showed no emotion. D) She smiled. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She cried and began pulling him. 35. What did the Time Traveller theorize about the development of humankind? A) They became robots. B) They became invisible. C) They developed into two species. D) They all disappeared. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They developed into two species. 36. "The Time Machine" is mostly about ..... A) Feeling the cold air in Alaska. B) Watching a dolphin race in Florida. C) Watching a dogsled race in Alaska. D) Making sure to be home in time for dinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Watching a dogsled race in Alaska. 37. What did the narrator see in the people's eyes? A) Confusion. B) Gentleness. C) Happiness. D) Anger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gentleness. 38. What year did the Time Travller travel to? A) 2023 AD. B) 8500 BC. C) 802, 701 AD. D) 8500 AD. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 802, 701 AD. 39. What does the Time Traveler notice when he looks at the dials of the Time Machine after escaping the Morlocks? (chpts. 9-Epilogue) A) He realizes he forgot to set the dials for his own time period. B) He notices he is traveling back to prehistoric times. C) He notices he is traveling further into the future. D) The dials no longer work, so he has no idea where he is going. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He notices he is traveling further into the future. 40. Who would be considered the "have nots" ? A) The Time Traveller and his friends. B) The Morlock. C) The Eloi. D) The giant crab. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Morlock. 41. What does the Time Traveller find in one of the museum galleries that literally makes him dance? A) Documents about his feats of time travel. B) Matches that are still good. C) A time capsule from 1899. D) A fossilized human. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Matches that are still good. 42. How often do they go to the city? A) Twice a month. B) Once a week. C) Once a month. D) Twice a week. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Twice a month. 43. What MAIN CONFLICT is introduced at the beginning of chapter 5? A) The Time Traveller gets lost while exploring the changed countryside. B) The Time Traveller forgets where he left his time machine. C) The time machine has been moved, but the Time Traveller does not know by whom or why. D) Someone steals the levers from the time machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The time machine has been moved, but the Time Traveller does not know by whom or why. 44. The examples, "clap of thunder" , and, "hissing hail" use sound to describe the setting when the traveller arrives in the future. This use of sound in text is called ..... A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 45. The people the Time Traveller saw were ..... A) Weak and unfriendly. B) Strong, hostile and scary. C) Strong, kind and friendly. D) Gentle, friendly and weak. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gentle, friendly and weak. 46. The Time Machine was in a different part of the laboratory because A) The guests had moved it. B) The Morlocks had moved it. C) The inventor had moved it. D) The little people had moved it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Morlocks had moved it. 47. I left Frodo alone with my sandwich in reaching distance, and there was not a ..... left when I got back. A) Remnant. B) Malign. C) Vestige. D) Incessant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Remnant. 48. A strong, coarse cloth used to make items such as sails, tents, and as a surface for oil painting. A) Janitor. B) Hoarse. C) Detective. D) Canvas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Canvas. 49. Something small or minor. A) Slight. B) Vanish. C) Attempt. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slight. 50. A period of 100 years A) Harrowing. B) Scholars. C) Possible. D) Century. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Century. 51. What time was it when the narrator noted the clock after the Time Machine started? A) Just before noon. B) Exactly at midnight. C) Nearly half-past ten. D) Early in the morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nearly half-past ten. 52. What does intermittently mean? A) Regularly. B) Intervals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intervals. 53. What theme is emerging? A) Crime doesn't pay. B) Treat all classes of society with respect. C) Be kind to your parents. D) Make good friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Treat all classes of society with respect. 54. To tug at something is to pull on it. A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 55. Why the traveler was breathing fast A) The air was full of pure oxygen. B) The air was full of carbon dioxide. C) The air was rare. D) None of this. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The air was rare. 56. What do the Eloi offer the Time Traveler when he intimates that he did in fact come out of the thunderstorm? (from Chapter 4) A) Fruit. B) Nuts. C) Flowers. D) Berries. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flowers. 57. ..... is the action of bringing someone or something under domination or control. A) Precocious. B) Lucid. C) Plausible. D) Subjugation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subjugation. 58. This passage is an example of A) Science fiction. B) Historical fiction. C) A poem. D) A fairy tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Science fiction. 59. What does the Time Traveler do that he later discovers to be an "atrocious folly?" (chpts. 9-Epilogue) A) He runs into the woods without first checking his whereabouts. B) He lights the firewood to frighten the Morlocks. C) He throws the sticks of dynamite at the Morlocks. D) He leaves Weena unguarded near a hollow tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He lights the firewood to frighten the Morlocks. 60. What is the time traveler's profession in The Time Machine? A) Politician. B) Musician. C) Artist. D) Scientist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Artist. ← 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 8The Time Machine Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books