H.G. Wells Q&A GRADE A
What two concepts does H. G. Wells connect in this excerpt from The Time machine?
At first, proceeding from the problems of our own age, it seemed clear as daylight to me
that the gradual widening of the present merely temporary and social difference
between the Capitalist and the Labourer, was the key to the whole position. No doubt it
will seem grotesque enough to you—and wildly incredible!—and yet even now there are
existing circumstances to point that way. There is a tendency to utilize underground
space for the less ornamental purposes of civilization; there is the Metropolitan Railway
in London, for instance, there are new electric railways, there are subways, there are
underground workrooms and restaurants, and they increase and multiply. Evidently, I
thought, this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the
sky. I mean that it had gone deeper and deeper into larger and ever - (correct
answer)present and future social conditions
Which field of study in the late nineteenth century was discussed in Robert Louis
Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
electrochemistry
radiology
paleontology
psychopathology - (correct answer)psychopathology
Which sentence in this excerpt from The Time Machine suggests that the Time Traveller
will later realize that his assumptions about the future society are incorrect?
This adjustment, I say, must have been done, and done well; done indeed for all Time,
in the space of Time across which my machine had leaped. The air was free from gnats,
the earth from weeds or fungi; everywhere were fruits and sweet and delightful flowers;
brilliant butterflies flew hither and thither. The ideal of preventive medicine was attained.
Diseases had been stamped out. I saw no evidence of any contagious diseases during
all my stay. And I shall have to tell you later that even the processes of putrefaction and
decay had been profoundly affected by these changes.
What two concepts does H. G. Wells connect in this excerpt from The Time machine?
At first, proceeding from the problems of our own age, it seemed clear as daylight to me
that the gradual widening of the present merely temporary and social difference
between the Capitalist and the Labourer, was the key to the whole position. No doubt it
will seem grotesque enough to you—and wildly incredible!—and yet even now there are
existing circumstances to point that way. There is a tendency to utilize underground
space for the less ornamental purposes of civilization; there is the Metropolitan Railway
in London, for instance, there are new electric railways, there are subways, there are
underground workrooms and restaurants, and they increase and multiply. Evidently, I
thought, this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the
sky. I mean that it had gone deeper and deeper into larger and ever - (correct
answer)present and future social conditions
Which field of study in the late nineteenth century was discussed in Robert Louis
Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
electrochemistry
radiology
paleontology
psychopathology - (correct answer)psychopathology
Which sentence in this excerpt from The Time Machine suggests that the Time Traveller
will later realize that his assumptions about the future society are incorrect?
This adjustment, I say, must have been done, and done well; done indeed for all Time,
in the space of Time across which my machine had leaped. The air was free from gnats,
the earth from weeds or fungi; everywhere were fruits and sweet and delightful flowers;
brilliant butterflies flew hither and thither. The ideal of preventive medicine was attained.
Diseases had been stamped out. I saw no evidence of any contagious diseases during
all my stay. And I shall have to tell you later that even the processes of putrefaction and
decay had been profoundly affected by these changes.
