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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the family’s surname?
(a) Bradbury
(b) Hadley
(c) Rosemont
(d) McClean

2. Where does the family plan on going for vacation?
(a) To Florida
(b) To Oklahoma
(c) To Hawaii
(d) To Iowa

3. From whose perspective is the story told?
(a) Peter Hadley’s
(b) David McClean’s
(c) Lydia Hadley’s
(d) George Hadley’s

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

5. Who says: “My God we need a breath of fresh air”?
(a) Peter
(b) George
(c) Wendy
(d) Lydia

6. Who says, “I don’t want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do”?
(a) Peter
(b) Lydia
(c) Wendy
(d) George

7. What has happened to the parents at the end of the story?
(a) George and Lydia have been killed by lions by the will of their children
(b) The parents take the family on a vacation to Iowa
(c) Nothing happens, because despite Dr.McClean’s suggestions no changes are made
(d) George and Lydia pack up their children and leave the house forever

8. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?
(a) French fries
(b) Dinner plates
(c) Ketchup
(d) Tea

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

10. Who says: “Nothing likes to die—even a room”?
(a) George Hadley
(b) Peter Hadley
(c) David McCLean
(d) Lydia Hadley

11. How long has the African veldt been in the nursery?
(a) One week
(b) About two weeks
(c) Just this morning
(d) A little over a month

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

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

14. How does the nursery create scenes?
(a) They are interactive television programs
(b) The scenes are based on books that the children read
(c) It creates it telepathically based on what the children are thinking
(d) They are images taken with a camera and then uploaded onto the screens

15. What does Dr. McClean think that the room has become more important than?
(a) The children’s attendance at school
(b) The children’s real friends
(c) The children’s real mother and father
(d) The children’s relationship with each other

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lydia sits down in the chair, what does it do?

2. The following morning, what does Peter ask his father?

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

4. Who threatens George?

5. Where do George and Lydia believe Wendy and Peter are?

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