The Time Machine up to chapter 9

How did Weena react when she and the Time Traveler came to the well (hole) in the ground in chapter 7?

• She became confused.

• She seemed curious.

• She was gleeful.

• She was upset.

What sound did the Time Traveler hear as he descended into the tunnel?

• The growls of a large animal

• The sound of a waterfall

• The thumping of machinery

• Someone crying for help

TWO ANSWERS: What did the Time Traveler learn about the Morlocks while he was underground?

• Morlocks eat meat

• Morlocks love to collect treasure and gold

• Morlocks came from another planet

• Morlocks are sensitive to light

Why is the Time Traveler almost out of matches?

• He had been lighting and smoking his tobacco pipe

• The future is cold so he has to build fires to stay warm

• The Eloi were amused by the fire from his matches

• He used up the matches trying to fix the time machine

What saved the Time Traveler and let him escape the Morlock tunnels?

• The Morlocks fought each other over who would eat him

• The light of the sun stopped the Morlocks chasing him.

• Weena brought some other Eloi to rescue him.

• He followed the string he had used to mark his path

Moving into chapter 8, what proof of his adventure does the Time Traveler offer his dinner guests?

• A Morlock skull

• A newspaper from the year 802,701

• photographs of the future

• strange flowers

What did the building that the Time Traveler called "the green palace" turn out to be?

• an old museum

• A Morlock fortress

• the home of a great wizard

• The factory where Eloi clothes are made

What weapon does the Time Traveler select in the museum?

• An iron bar he breaks off an old machine

• The spiked tailbone of a dinosaur skeleton

• A laser rifle in a cracked glass display case

• the sword from a suit of armor on display

What's wrong with the dynamite that the protagonist finds in the museum?

• It is a fake display prop

• It is too old and stale to work

• It is dangerously unstable because it got wet

• Nothing at all. Time to 'splode some Morlocks!

At first, the Time Traveler thought the Morlocks were the enslaved servants of the Eloi, but he was wrong. What does he figure out at the end of chapter 8?

• The Morlocks are the fully grown adult version of the Eloi

• Morlocks are aliens who can't stand the light of Earth's sun

• Morlocks are the result of an evil science experiment from his own time

• Morlocks and Eloi both evolved from humans, and now the Morlocks eat the Eloi.