Time Machine Quiz I-X

Why are two levers needed for the time machine?

• both push forward into the future

• both push backward into the past

• one sends the rider into the future, the other sends the rider into the past

• one is used when only traveling for a few years, and the other is used when going hundreds of years

How does the Time Traveller look when he first arrived at the dinner in the beginning of the novel?

• well-dressed and confident

• sloppy and very tired

• sloppy and not very hungry

• well-dressed but angry

Why do the people at the dinner party doubt the Time Traveller's story?

• He has a history of playing pranks on people.

• The doctor said the Time Traveller had been caught telling lies in the past.

• The Time Traveller told the medical man that he was unsure about what really happened

• He has a strange laugh while telling the story.

What is happening with the weather right before the Time Traveller lands for the first time?

• It is sunny but windy

• It is a heavy snow storm

• It is a hurricane

• It is a hail storm

What does the Time Traveller eat with the new creatures?

• Fruit

• Nuts

• Eggs

• Vegetables

What year did the Time Traveller travel to?

• 8500 BC

• 802,701 AD

• 8500 AD

• 500,001 AD

What reason does the Time Traveller give for the weakness of the new creatures?

• There is no room to exercise

• There is too much food available

• Life became too comfortable

• It is popular to become weak

When the Time Traveller discovers that the time machine is missing, how does he know that the new creatures are not traveling in space?

• He thinks they are too unintelligent to figure out how to operate it.

• They promised him they wouldn't time travel with it.

• It is too heavy to move very far.

• He took the levers off and held onto them.

Where does the Time Traveller think the time machine is?

• Back on Earth

• In the flower garden

• in or below the sphinx statue

• on the top of the tallest building

Who did the Time Traveller rescue from the river?

• Weena

• a Morlock

• two Eloi

• the narrator