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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What are their bedrooms called?
(a) Bedrooms
(b) Flues
(c) Slumber rooms
(d) Sleepertubes

5. What do the beds “try” to do?
(a) Rock Lydia and George to sleep
(b) Wake them up
(c) Tell them that they didn’t hear anything
(d) Nothing; they are just beds

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

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

8. What is Lydia’s initial solution?
(a) To do nothing; the children will throw a fit
(b) To tear the room down
(c) To get rid of the machines
(d) To lock the nursery for a few days until her nerves are settled

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

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

11. When George and David enter the nursery, what are the lions doing?
(a) Hunting
(b) Pacing
(c) Sleeping
(d) Feeding

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

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

14. What does Dr.McClean find on the floor?
(a) A wallet
(b) Dirty dishes
(c) A tea cup
(d) A bloodied scarf

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the lions doing when Dr. McClean walks in?

2. What is the wife’s name?

3. Who are they going to have come look at Africa (the nursery) the following morning?

4. What do George and Lydia think is broken?

5. What form of writing is The Veldt?

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