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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the nursery a reflection of?
(a) The good things in society
(b) The children’s psyches
(c) The bad things in society
(d) Books the children read

2. What doesn’t Dr. McClean think “feels good”?
(a) The nursery
(b) The emotion of the paint colors the Hadley’s chose
(c) George’s emotions
(d) The carpet under his feet

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

4. When Lydia sits down in the chair, what does it do?
(a) It rocks and comforts her
(b) Offers her a cup of coffee
(c) Puts a blanket on her
(d) It does nothing; it is a chair

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

6. What is the family’s surname?
(a) Bradbury
(b) Rosemont
(c) McClean
(d) Hadley

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

8. What is described as, “It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon”?
(a) The outside
(b) The kitchen
(c) The nursery
(d) The backyard

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

10. What is flying overhead?
(a) Vultures
(b) Pterodactyls
(c) Mary Poppins
(d) Ducks

11. When George walks into the nursery with the children, what is there?
(a) The Grand Canyon
(b) Nothing; the walls are blank
(c) The African veldt
(d) Rima, and a lovely lush green forest

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

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

14. This is an example of what type of figurative language: “…and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry…”?
(a) Personification
(b) A metaphor
(c) A simile
(d) Alliteration

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do George and Lydia hear while they are lying in bed?

2. What turns on and off as they walk through the house?

3. What does Dr.McClean say that George has become?

4. How old are the children?

5. What does Lydia hear that George does not?

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