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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?
(a) They act indifferent, as if they don’t care
(b) They scream and cry, and throw a tantrum
(c) They threaten their parents with violence
(d) They try to blackmail their parents into turning it back on

2. What are the lions doing when Dr. McClean walks in?
(a) They are hunting
(b) They are sleeping
(c) They are finishing feeding and walking to the waterhole
(d) They are grooming each other

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

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

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

6. What does Dr.McClean suggest George do to the nursery?
(a) He does not suggest he do anything with the nursery
(b) Pre-program it
(c) Lock it up
(d) Have the room torn down

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

8. How far away are they when the nursery lights come on?
(a) One foot
(b) They turn on at the threshold
(c) Ten feet
(d) Five feet

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

10. What has the room become a channel for?
(a) Dreams
(b) Education
(c) Devastation
(d) Destructive thoughts

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

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

13. Dinner is being prepared for a family of ________.
(a) Two
(b) Four
(c) Three
(d) Five

14. 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) Lydia
(d) Peter

15. How do the children tell their parents that they won’t be home for dinner?
(a) They transported an image of themselves
(b) They just come home late
(c) They called on a cellular phone
(d) They “televised” home to say they’d be late

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nursery a reflection of?

2. Who says: “Nothing likes to die—even a room”?

3. What does Lydia hear that George does not?

4. Who comes home late smelling like ozone?

5. What is their home called?

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