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H G Wells once said: ‘Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.’ What does that mean in a few words?
We either educate ourselves intensively or we won't know how to live and will end up destroying one another and the environment.
In the story, the Time Traveller travels to the year __________ .
802,701 AD
He meets a tribe of humans called the ___________, who are a simple, harmless people who live in fear of the man-eating ___________.
Eloi / Morlocks
Who takes his Time Machine?
The Morlocks
Where do The Morlocks live?
They live beneath the earth in a maze of tunnels and caves.
Who does The Time Traveller befriend?
Weena, an Eloi
In the beginning of the story, The Time Traveller is in his home, speaking to a group of men that includes the narrator. What is he lecturing on?
The fourth dimension
What does The Time Traveller say about the cube in the beginning of the story?
He says that a cube exists not only in space, but also in time.
What happens with his Time Machine when he gets to the future?
It gets stolen.
How does the protagonist try to convince his friends that his machine can really travel in time?
He produces a miniature time machine and demonstrates it to them.
How do the protagonist's friends react to his lecturing on time travel?
They are incredulous and make sarcastic remarks.
Where does the story take place?
In Victorian England
What do The Eloi look like?
They have large eyes, curly hair, and thin red lips.
What does The Eloi's language sound like, as the protagonist describes it?
A "sweet and liquid tongue"
What is peculiar about The Eloi at a first glance?
There are no outward signs of gender and that there are no old people.
What does The Time Traveller think he has encountered when he makes contact with The Eloi?
He thinks he has arrived in a communist paradise, and that these creatures are the result of a world without hardship and fear.
