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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long will it take to make “good children out of bad”?
(a) It is not necessary because Dr.McClean thinks that they are great as they are
(b) It is an impossible task
(c) A year
(d) Five years

2. When Mr. and Mrs. Hadley scream, they realize why the screams they heard before sound familiar. Why is this?
(a) They were hearing their own screams
(b) The screams sounded familiar because they heard them repeatedly
(c) They were hearing their neighbor’s screams
(d) They were hearing the screams of their children

3. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?
(a) Lydia’s heart
(b) The dining room table
(c) The door to the nursery
(d) The entire house

4. What does Dr. McClean state as one of the original uses of the nursery?
(a) To watch the children so that the adults may live their lives
(b) To entertain the children
(c) So that we could study patterns left on the walls by the child’s mind, study at our leisure and help the child
(d) To fill their minds with knowledge of the world

5. What is the wife’s name?
(a) Lois
(b) Lydia
(c) Rachel
(d) Wendy

6. What does the wife want the husband to take a look at?
(a) The stove
(b) The front door
(c) The furnace
(d) The nursery

7. What does Dr.McClean suggest George do to the nursery?
(a) Have the room torn down
(b) Lock it up
(c) He does not suggest he do anything with the nursery
(d) Pre-program it

8. Who thinks Wendy changed the nursery from a veldt to a forest?
(a) Both George and Lydia
(b) Peter
(c) Ruby
(d) David

9. What does Wendy offer Dr.McClean?
(a) A ham and cheese sandwich
(b) A cup of coffee
(c) A cup of tea
(d) A scone and jam

10. To whom does the item belong?
(a) George
(b) Wendy
(c) Lydia
(d) Peter

11. What is “busy humming it to itself” in the opening paragraphs?
(a) The stove
(b) The baby
(c) The robot maid
(d) The nursery

12. Who says, “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was before”?
(a) The wife
(b) The psychologist
(c) Peter Hadley
(d) The husband

13. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?
(a) Having a formal dinner in the dinging room
(b) Playing video games on the wall TVs in the living room
(c) Napping in their beds
(d) Eating lunch in what looks like an open glade in the nursery

14. What does Dr.McClean say that George has become?
(a) A troll
(b) A scrooge
(c) An angel
(d) A santa

15. What point of view is The Veldt told from?
(a) First person
(b) Third-person limited
(c) Third-person omniscient
(d) Second person

Short Answer Questions

1. Who initially believes that the nursery walls are too real?

2. Who calls George and Lydia into the nursery?

3. What form of writing is The Veldt?

4. Which word is used to describe the hallway?

5. How do they get to their bedrooms?

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