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

2. What do they see when they look to the sky?
(a) Macaws
(b) Vultures
(c) Storm clouds
(d) Blue

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

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

5. 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 own screams
(c) They were hearing their neighbor’s screams
(d) The screams sounded familiar because they heard them repeatedly

6. From whose perspective is the story told?
(a) David McClean’s
(b) Lydia Hadley’s
(c) George Hadley’s
(d) Peter Hadley’s

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

8. What form of writing is The Veldt?
(a) A novel
(b) A poem
(c) A novella
(d) A short story

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

10. How long will it take to make “good children out of bad”?
(a) Five years
(b) It is an impossible task
(c) It is not necessary because Dr.McClean thinks that they are great as they are
(d) A year

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

12. What is the husband’s name?
(a) David
(b) George
(c) Leonard
(d) Randall

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

14. Where does the family plan on going for vacation?
(a) To Oklahoma
(b) To Iowa
(c) To Hawaii
(d) To Florida

15. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?
(a) Ketchup
(b) Tea
(c) French fries
(d) Dinner plates

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?

2. Why does George laugh at Lydia?

3. What is the nursery a reflection of?

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

5. Where do George and Lydia believe Wendy and Peter are?

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