Question

Select the correct text in the passage.
Which detail best supports the idea that the people in the future are confused about where the narrator has come from?

adapted from The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells

As they made no effort to communicate with me, but simply stood round me smiling and speaking in soft cooing notes to each other, I began the conversation by pointing to the Time Machine and to myself. Then, hesitating for a moment how to express Time, I pointed to the sun and at once a quaintly pretty little figure in chequered purple and white followed my gesture, and then astonished me by imitating the sound of thunder.
For a moment I was staggered, though the import of his gesture was plain enough. The question had come into my mind abruptly: were these creatures fools? You may hardly understand how it took me. You see, I had always anticipated that the people of the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd would be incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything. Then one of them suddenly asked me a question that showed him to be on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children—asked me, in fact, if I had come from the sun in a thunderstorm! It let loose the judgment I had suspended upon their clothes, their frail light limbs, and fragile features. A flow of disappointment rushed across my mind and for a moment I felt that I had built the Time Machine in vain.

Answer 1

After reading the passage from "The Time Machine," we can select the detail that supports the idea that the people in the future are confused about where the narrator has come from as the following:

4. Then one of them suddenly asked me a question that showed him to be on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children—asked me, in fact, if I had come from the sun in a thunderstorm.

What happens to the narrator in "The Time Machine"?

• The narrator in the story is able to build a machine that allows him to time travel. He eventually goes to a distant future, hoping that the people he will meet will be advanced in all possible senses.

What does the narrator encounter in the future?

• The narrator is quite disappointed with the creatures he sees once he arrives at the future. They do not seem advanced at all. He notices they are frail, probably because they do not use their bodies to perform any work.

• The narrator also notices their confusion in understanding where he came from. He tries to explain that he traveled through time, but the people think he has come from the sun in a thunderstorm - an explanation that is not scientific in the least.

With the information above in mind, we can choose option 4 as the best one to support the idea about the people's confusion.

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