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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has just been eating in the nursery?
(a) Their children
(b) Rabbits
(c) No one and nothing has been eating in the nursery. The parents don’t allow it.
(d) Lions

2. 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…”?
(a) A metaphor
(b) A simile
(c) Personification
(d) Alliteration

3. Why does Lydia bolt and run?
(a) She is suddenly too hot and very thirsty
(b) Someone is ringing the front doorbell
(c) George tells her to
(d) The lions are coming at them

4. Who initially suggests that the family take a vacation and “shut the house off”?
(a) Max
(b) Lydia
(c) George
(d) Wendy

5. What is described as, “It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon”?
(a) The nursery
(b) The outside
(c) The kitchen
(d) The backyard

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

7. Who says the following: “But I thought that’s why we bought this house, so we wouldn’t have to do anything?”
(a) Ruby
(b) George
(c) Peter
(d) Lydia

8. Where do George and Lydia believe Wendy and Peter are?
(a) At school
(b) At a plastic carnival across town
(c) In the nursery
(d) At their robot friend’s house

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

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

11. Who initially believes that the nursery walls are too real?
(a) Lydia
(b) Wendy
(c) George
(d) Peter

12. Who calls George and Lydia into the nursery?
(a) The nursery calls them
(b) Max and Ruby
(c) Peter and Wendy
(d) David McClean

13. How many children are there in the family?
(a) Three
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Four

14. What is found on the floor of the nursery?
(a) Cigarettes
(b) Dirty dishes
(c) Wendy’s blankie
(d) An old wallet of George’s

15. What concerns George?
(a) George is concerned that his children don’t come home for dinner
(b) George is concerned that the lions were killing and eating, which means that for this to happen his children had thought of death
(c) George is concerned that Lydia doesn’t have enough to do in the house
(d) George is concerned that they don’t have enough money to pay their bills

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does George offer David McClean?

3. What do George and Lydia think is broken?

4. Which word is used to describe the hallway?

5. When George walks into the nursery with the children, what is there?

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