1. Complete the sentence: “…the walls began to ________ and recede into __________distance…”?
(a) Purr / crystalline
(b) Talk / far
(c) Shimmer / blinding
(d) Argue / dark

2. What are the children’s names?
(a) Ruby and Max
(b) Penelope
(c) Peter and Wendy
(d) Liza, Ray, Flora

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

4. What turns on and off as they walk through the house?
(a) The heat
(b) The lights
(c) Music
(d) Television walls

5. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?
(a) Peter
(b) Lydia
(c) David
(d) George

Short Answer Questions

1. This is an example of what type of figurative language: “…and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry…”?

2. What is described as, “It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon”?

3. Who says the following: “But nothing’s too good for our children”?

4. Why do the parents think the children have been acting funny?

5. Who does the wife want the husband to call, and for what reason?

(see the answer key)

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