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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do they get to their bedrooms?
(a) By taking the stairs
(b) In an air closet that sucks them up to their sleeping chambers
(c) By telepathically transporting
(d) Through a wall in the nursery

2. What does Dr. McClean say children prefer?
(a) Scrooges
(b) Santas
(c) Destruction
(d) Happiness

3. How old are the children?
(a) Ten years old
(b) Seven years old
(c) Three years old
(d) Fifteen years old

4. What do George and Lydia think is broken?
(a) The nursery machinery
(b) The front door
(c) The stove
(d) The dining room table

5. What is the nursery a reflection of?
(a) Books the children read
(b) The children’s psyches
(c) The bad things in society
(d) The good things in society

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?

2. What does Dr.McClean say that George has become?

3. What does the found item smell like?

4. What is a major theme of The Veldt?

5. What does Dr.McClean find on the floor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where are George and Lydia Hadley?

2. Describe the nursery. Why is it a special room? What are the dimensions?

3. What do the vultures in the African veldt scene indicate?

4. How is dinner served to George and Lydia?

5. What does Lydia notice about George as well?

6. Explain how the nursery reflects the children’s psyches.

7. Why aren’t Wendy and Peter at dinner?

8. Explain how the nursery conjures the African veldt.

9. How do Peter and Wendy trick George and Lydia into the nursery?

10. How do Wendy and Peter react when George asks them about Africa?

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