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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What genre is The Veldt?
(a) Romance
(b) Memoir
(c) Science fiction
(d) Chick lit

3. What is the problem that Lydia is beginning to feel with the house?
(a) She feels that the house is too expensive
(b) That it no longer does what she expects it to
(c) That it is too cold with all of the machines
(d) she and George are becoming unnecessary

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

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

6. Why do the parents think the children have been acting funny?
(a) The children are angry with them for working so much
(b) The children no longer talk to them
(c) They have cut back on the children’s allowance
(d) They would not let the children take a rocket to New York

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

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

9. 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) Having a formal dinner in the dinging room
(d) Napping in their beds

10. Where are the lions going?
(a) To bed down for night time
(b) To hunt
(c) To eat
(d) To the watering hole

11. Who comes home late smelling like ozone?
(a) George and Lydia
(b) Max and Ruby
(c) Peter and Wendy
(d) David

12. When was The Veldt published?
(a) 1970
(b) 1980
(c) 1950
(d) 1960

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

14. What does the found item smell like?
(a) Cigarette smoke
(b) Rain and ferns
(c) Hot grass and lion
(d) Old cheese and meat

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children are there in the family?

2. How much did the nursery cost in comparison to the rest of the house?

3. When Mr. and Mrs. Hadley scream, they realize why the screams they heard before sound familiar. Why is this?

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

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

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