The Comprehension Questions

1. What are the penalties for disobeying instructions?
2.  "There's a stiff penalty of another ten thousand dollars, plus possible government action, on your return."
3. What did some people want to do if Deutscher had won the election and why?
4. "We're lucky. If Deutscher had gotten in, we'd have the worst kind of dictatorship. There's an anti everything man for you, a militarist, anti-Christ, anti-human, anti-intellectual. People called us up, you know, joking but not joking. Said if Deutscher became President they wanted to go live in 1492."
5. What does Travis tell Eckels is the best way to kill a dinosaur?
6. "The Machine howled. Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them. "Think," said Eckels. "Every hunter that ever lived would envy us today. This makes Africa seem like Illinois.""
7. How many years did the men travel?
8. "First a day and then a night and then a day and then a night, then it was day-night-day-night. A week, a month, a year, a decade! A.D. 2055. A.D. 2019. 1999! 1957!" 
9. What is the antigravity metal path and why must the men stay on it?
10. It is a metal path that is stuck off into green wilderness so that they do not step on anything that could ruin the future history.
11. What happened to the machine and the men’s clothes before they made their journey?
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13. Why do the men wear oxygen helmets?
14. So that they don't introduce their bacteria into an ancient atmosphere.
15. What is unique about the dinosaurs that the men can shoot?
16. They are the ones that can not mate and that have no future.
17. What does Eckels jokingly pretend to do?
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19. What does Eckels say when he sees the size of the dinosaur?
20. "Why, why," Eckels twitched his mouth. "It could reach up and grab the moon."
21. How do the men know which dinosaurs they can shoot?
22. Before they have arrived they sent Lespera de to study the animals and the ones he found that could not mate again he painted  them red.
23. What do Billings and Kramer do after the dinosaur is dead?
24. Billings and Kramer sat on the pathway and threw up.
25. What does Travis make Eckels do in order to go back with them?
26. "The Monster's dead, you idiot. The bullets! The bullets can't be left behind. They don't belong in the Past; they might change anything. Here's my knife. Dig them out!"

1. What does Eckels notice about the sign on their return?
2. That the letters on it are spelled wrong.
3. What does Eckels find on the bottom of his boots? 
4. He finds a dead little golden butterfly.