I usually like to do some reading together as a class. This book is part of the public domain, so the pdf is available online for free in Gutenberg. You can get the book here: Gutenberg. This usually works better in a small class where all the students have agreed to read the book. I usually assign a few chapters a week, but “to each their own”, you can space out the reading between two weeks or more as well. For each group of chapters I wrote some questions which the students can answer as they read. Super fun!

The answers to these questions are in a file at the bottom.

Chapters 1 and 2:

• How many dimensions are there according to the speaker?
• Is the “Time Traveler” and the narrator the same person?
• What happened to the Time Traveler’s machine?
• Did the “men of science” believe the time traveler?
• The following week they had dinner together. How did the time traveler look when he arrived?
• Who do you think the “Silent Man” is? Do you think he will be important further on?
• How many days into the past did the time traveler travel to?

Chapters 3 and 4:

1. What does the time machine look like in the beginning of the chapter?
2. What does time traveling feel like according to the speaker? Give me some examples from the book.
3. How fast was the machine travelling?
4. Why was the Time Traveler afraid of stopping the time machine?
5. What was the weather like when the Time Traveler stopped?
6. The Time Traveler met a group of “people”. What did they look like?
7. Where did they think the time Traveler had come from?
8. Was the “People’s” society new and clean or old and dirty? Why, do you think?
9. Are men and women different in the future? What reasons does the Time Traveler give for this?
10. What explanation does the Traveler give for the short stature and low intelligence of the future “People”?

Chapters 5 and 6:

1. What did the time traveler find when he returned to the lawn in front of the sphinx?
2. What clues did the time traveler find around the lawn where his time machine had been?
3. Where did he believe the time machine was?
4. What did the time traveler find when he was exploring the hills?
5. How did the time traveler make a friend? Was it a good friendship?
6. What scary thing did the time traveler see?
7. What is a “Have” and a “Have-not”?
8. What do the Morlocks look like?
9. The time traveler thinks that the Morlocks are workers and the Eloi are masters. Do you think he is right?

Chapters 7 and 8:

1. Why were the Eloi getting reacquainted with fear?
2. What do the Morlocks eat now and what did they used to eat?
3. The Time Traveler says that the Eloi were like cattle to the Morlocks. What does he mean?
4. The time traveler finds a building. What was the building’s purpose?
5. What did he find in it to help him fight the Morlocks?
6. What’s the time traveler’s plan for the next day?

Chapters 9 and 10 and 11:

1. What did the time traveler do to fend off the Morlocks?
2. How did the Morlocks capture Meena and the Time Traveler?
3. How did the Time Traveler free himself from them?
4. Did Meena survive?
5. When the Time Traveler finds the time machine in the sphinx, what happens?
6. In the end, did people believe the Time Traveler’s tale?
7. The Time Traveler left. Did he ever come back?

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