The Time Traveller
About how far into the future does the Time Traveler travel?
About 800,000 years into 802,701.
What is the Time Traveller's companion's name?
Weena
The Eloi.
What is a utopia?
A place where everything is perfect.
Unable to move, secured in place (adj)
Immobile
Who wrote The Time Machine?
H.G. Wells.
What is the fourth dimension?
Time
What are the Eloi afraid of?
The dark --> the Morlocks.
How do the Morlocks access the Underworld?
Wells.
What common ancestor do the Morlocks and Eloi share?
The feeling of joy and pride (noun)
Elation
What does the Time Traveller bring back from the year 802,701?
What is the Time Traveller's main weapon against the Morlocks?
Fire
The Eloi's voices are?
Gentle and musical, they sounded like birds cooing as they spoke.
Where do the Morlocks hide the time machine?
Inside the sphinx.
What is one creature the Time Traveler sees in the distant future?
Giant butterflies and crabs; a sea squid-like creature
What vocab word (verb) is a close synonym for reassure, to comfort?
Console
True or false, H.G. Wells was a science teacher before becoming an author of The Time Machine?
True. Wells served as science teacher at London’s Henley House School, which had just 13 students
Name two characters who doubt the Time Traveler's story.
The Medical Man
The Psychologist
The Editor
The Journalist
The Provincial Mayor
Filby
The Very Young Man
The Man with a Beard
What do the Eloi wear?
Robes and sandals
Describe the Morlock's appearance. (hair, arms teeth)
Pale hair, long arms, small and pointed teeth
When was The Time Machine published?
1895
A partnership, an act of working together
Name another fictional object besides a time machine other characters in stories or movies have used to travel time.
Answers vary.
What happens to the Time Traveller at the end of the story?
We don't know. He travels through time and never returns.
Why didn't the time traveler see any Eloi that had signs of sickness, injury or even age?
They were eaten by the Morlocks.
What color were the Morlock's eyes?
The Time Machine is a reaction to what real life economic event during the 1800s?
The Industrial Revolution
Showing bright colors that seem to change from different angles (adj)
Iridescent
How many time zones does France have?
12!!
France's overseas territories are very scattered, taking in the Caribbean, South America, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific and the Antarctic.
This gives France a lot of different time zones.