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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What doesn’t Dr. McClean think “feels good”?
(a) George’s emotions
(b) The carpet under his feet
(c) The emotion of the paint colors the Hadley’s chose
(d) The nursery

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

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

10. Who does George think is spoiled?
(a) Max and Ruby
(b) All of them, the entire family
(c) Peter and Wendy
(d) Lydia

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

12. What have Peter and Wendy had for dinner at the carnival?
(a) Hot dogs and strawberry ice cream
(b) They have had protein smoothies
(c) Bread and butter
(d) They have not had dinner yet

13. What does Peter admit to?
(a) Re-programming the house systems
(b) Conjuring up Africa
(c) Sneaking out of the house
(d) Secretly taking the trip to New York

14. What is on the wallet?
(a) Drops of saliva, chew marks, and smears of blood
(b) A green goo that is undecipherable
(c) Bits of grass, water and mud
(d) Nothing; it is clean

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is flying overhead?

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

3. Who says, “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was before”?

4. What is George going to do with the nursery?

5. What does the nursery transform into as George and Lydia are inspecting it?

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