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The Time Machine up to chapter 5

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  • What does The Eloi's language sound like, as the protagonist describes it?
    A "sweet and liquid tongue"
  • In the story, the Time Traveller travels to the year __________ .
    802,701 AD
  • What happens with his Time Machine when he gets to the future?
    It gets stolen.
  • What does the protagonist discover in chapter 5 about The Eloi's world?
    The world of the Eloi is a dystopia.
  • Who takes his Time Machine?
    The Morlocks
  • What do The Eloi look like?
    They have large eyes, curly hair, and thin red lips.
  • Who does The Time Traveller befriend?
    Weena, an Eloi
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • What is strange about the episode when Weena almost drowns? Who saves her?
    No Eloi tries to help her. The protagonist does.
  • 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
  • Where do The Morlocks live?
    They live beneath the earth in a maze of tunnels and caves.
  • He meets a tribe of humans called the ___________, who are a simple, harmless people who live in fear of the man-eating ___________.
    Eloi / Morlocks
  • 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 is peculiar about The Eloi at a first glance?
    There are no outward signs of gender and that there are no old people.
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