The Time Machine

H.G. Wells

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What is the name of the creatures who live above ground?

Where is the time machine hidden?

What is (or was) the Palace of Green Porcelain?

In this novella, what is the fourth dimension?

Which of the following brushes the Time Traveller with its antennae?

As time passes, what happens to the sun?

Which of the following does the Time Traveller not retrieve from the museum?

Which of the following ecological disasters does the Time Traveller inflict on the future?

What do the Morlocks fear most?

Why does the Time Traveller remove the levers from his machine?

What does the Time Traveller bring back from the future?

The Eloi remind the Time Traveller of:

When the novella appeared, H.G. Wells was a(n):

The Eloi language contains few:

Weena seems to love the Time Traveller. Why?

What is the narrator's position in relation to the Time Traveller?

What is the function of the underground machines?

The Time Machine was first published in book form in what year?

Before he discovers the Morlocks, the Time Traveller ascribes the weakness of humankind's descendents to what?

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