H.G. Wells GRADE A Q&A
What two concepts does H. G. Wells connect in this excerpt from The Time machine?
A) present and future social conditions
B) rich employers and poor laborers
C) the Eloi and the Morlocks
D) primitive and modern technology
Excerpt:
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 - (correct answer)A) present and future social conditions
Which sentence in this excerpt from The Time Machine suggests that the Time Traveler
will later realize that his assumptions about the future society are incorrect?
Sentence One: 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.
Sentence Two: 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?
A) present and future social conditions
B) rich employers and poor laborers
C) the Eloi and the Morlocks
D) primitive and modern technology
Excerpt:
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 - (correct answer)A) present and future social conditions
Which sentence in this excerpt from The Time Machine suggests that the Time Traveler
will later realize that his assumptions about the future society are incorrect?
Sentence One: 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.
Sentence Two: And I shall have to tell you later that even the processes of putrefaction
and decay had been profoundly affected by these changes.
