The Time Machine Quiz AP Lit - A

Into what year does the Time Traveller estimate he has arrived?

• 800,000 C.E.

• 50,000 B.C.E.

• 300,000 B.C.E.

• 1 billion C.E.

• He does not know the time

Where does the Time Traveller think the inhabitants of the land believe he came from?

• underground where the Morlocks now live

• the future through a wormhole instead of a time machine

• from the sun in a thunderstorm

• another dimension in space-time

What does the Time Traveller regard the new moon as his enemy?

• A harbinger of doomed cosmic upheaval

• A potential disruptor of the space-time continuum

• The skies are darkest on new moon nights and Morlocks roam in the dark

• A symbol of inevitable change and rebirth

What souvenir from the future world does the Time Traveller remove from his pocket to show his dinner guests?

• A crystalline artifact of the Eloi

• Two wilted flowers that Weena had given to him.

• A fragment of alien minerals

• A cultural relic of the Morlacks

What kind of meat does the Time Traveller finally deduce he saw on the table in the Morlocks' cavern?

• Exotic megafauna from an unknown lost continent

• Mutated bodies and grotesque creatures of the deep

• A jumble of unsettling bones and joints akin to human remains

• Synthetic and artificial meat that has been cloned in factory farm labs

What confuses the Time Traveller about the stars?

• The constellations he knows are gone due to the stars shifting over time

• The absence of clear night skies in the future due to light pollution

• How the constellations do not actually look like what they symbolically represent

• Their inexplicable brightness of millions of other suns

Why does the Time Traveller break a lever off one of the machines he discovers?

• A desperate attempt to communicate with the Morlocks

• A symbolic act of defiance in the face of injustice

• As a misguided attempt at sabotage the Eloi

• As a weapon against the Morlocks

What does the Time Traveller do that he later discovers to be an 'atrocious folly'?

• Trusting the Morlocks to give him back the Time Machine

• Lighting a fire to escape from the Morlocks

• Disclosing his knowledge of the future with others

• Ignoring Weena's warnings not to climb down the well into the Morlock's caverns

What do the Morlocks take from the Time Traveller's pocket?

• the flowers Weena gave him

• a pocket watch

• the lever to the Time Machine

• a box of matches

What does the Time Traveller notice about the Time Machine when he finds it?

• It has been tampered with and sabotaged trapping him there

• It is covered in dust and cobwebs from being lost for so long

• It is oiled and cleaned thoroughly

• It is a replica made of lesser quality materials