H.G. Wells UPDATED EXAM QUESTIONS And
CORRECT Answers
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 ANSWERS 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.
CORRECT Answers
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 ANSWERS 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.
