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.
<h3>What happens to the narrator in "The Time Machine"?</h3>
- 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.
<h3>What does the narrator encounter in the future?</h3>
- 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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