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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do George and Lydia notice about the screams?
(a) They don’t sound human
(b) They sound familiar
(c) They sound really far away
(d) They sound really close

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

4. Why does George laugh at Lydia?
(a) Because her skin is so far she is burned by the fake sun in the nursery
(b) Because she trips on her way out of the nursery
(c) Because she is afraid of the nursery
(d) Because she makes a joke

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

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

8. What does Lydia hear that George does not?
(a) Their children calling them
(b) Songbirds
(c) Classical music
(d) A scream

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

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

11. Who threatens George?
(a) The nursery
(b) David
(c) Wendy
(d) Peter

12. 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 mother and father
(c) The children’s real friends
(d) The children’s attendance at school

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

14. What does the nursery transform into as George and Lydia are inspecting it?
(a) An African veldt
(b) The Grand Canyon
(c) The Sahara Desert
(d) A tropical jungle

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they see when they look to the sky?

2. What is on the wallet?

3. How does the nursery create scenes?

4. What form of writing is The Veldt?

5. What is described as, “It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon”?

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