The Time Machine Chapters 1-3

1. When the narrator says, “Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon…” he is using the literary device __________________when talking about what the chairs do the people who sit in them.

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

• personification

1. According to the Time Traveller, ____________________ is the fourth dimension.

• space

• time

• length

• thickness

When discussing time travel the following are mentioned: the Battle of Hastings, Homer, and Plato. These are all ________________________ to historical things or people.

• allusions

• metaphors

• similes

• aliterations

When people use the term “the future” it can represent the past or things that have not yet happened.

• true

• false

The time traveller uses well educated men to tell about his science because

• they trust everyone

• they trust no one

• they know what questions to ask for actual proof

• they will give him the money he needs to build the machine

The text, “...trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with eggshell china,” is an example of ________________ comparing trust to the fragility of china.

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

1. Who is the unknown man that is quiet, shy, and has a beard who attends the dinner with the other men?

• unknown at this point

• the time traveller

• another doctor

• the lawyer

This use of _______________: “dusty and diary…hair disordered…a cut half-healed…blood-stained socks”, is the author trying to prove that the traveller passed through time.

• allusion

• imagery

• personification

• theme

When the Time traveller returns to the dinner table the only thing he wants is _________________________ to eat.

• beef

• pork

• mutton

• chicken

How many days was the traveler away?

• 6

• 9

• 4

• 8