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

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

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

5. Where do George and Lydia believe Wendy and Peter are?
(a) In the nursery
(b) At school
(c) At a plastic carnival across town
(d) At their robot friend’s house

6. What does George try to conjure to get rid of the veldt?
(a) Aladdin and his lamp
(b) Rima and the jungle
(c) The prairie grasses of the Great Plains
(d) His favorite childhood fishing spot

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

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

9. What do George and Lydia think is broken?
(a) The dining room table
(b) The stove
(c) The nursery machinery
(d) The front door

10. What happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?
(a) They cannot because the door is locked
(b) George finds a bloody tie tied around the doorknob
(c) An alarms sounds
(d) Lydia trips and sprains her ankle

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. The following morning, what does Peter ask his father?
(a) If he and Wendy can take a rocket to New York
(b) If he can drink coffee
(c) If they are going to look up the nursery for good
(d) If they are going to go on a family vacation this year

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

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

15. What is the wife’s name?
(a) Wendy
(b) Rachel
(c) Lydia
(d) Lois