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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Wendy offer Dr.McClean?
(a) A cup of tea
(b) A ham and cheese sandwich
(c) A scone and jam
(d) A cup of coffee
2. What is flying overhead?
(a) Vultures
(b) Mary Poppins
(c) Pterodactyls
(d) Ducks
3. How much did the nursery cost in comparison to the rest of the house?
(a) Twice as much
(b) One third as much
(c) One-half as much
(d) Thrice as much
4. Dinner is being prepared for a family of ________.
(a) Two
(b) Four
(c) Five
(d) Three
5. Who initially believes that the nursery walls are too real?
(a) Wendy
(b) Lydia
(c) George
(d) Peter
6. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?
(a) Lydia’s heart
(b) The door to the nursery
(c) The dining room table
(d) The entire house
7. How do they get to their bedrooms?
(a) By taking the stairs
(b) In an air closet that sucks them up to their sleeping chambers
(c) Through a wall in the nursery
(d) By telepathically transporting
8. Who says the following: “But I thought that’s why we bought this house, so we wouldn’t have to do anything?”
(a) Ruby
(b) Peter
(c) George
(d) Lydia
9. Who says, “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was before”?
(a) The psychologist
(b) The wife
(c) The husband
(d) Peter Hadley
10. Which word is used to describe the hallway?
(a) Soundproofed
(b) Suffocating
(c) Narrow
(d) Long
11. What is the problem that Lydia is beginning to feel with the house?
(a) She feels that the house is too expensive
(b) she and George are becoming unnecessary
(c) That it no longer does what she expects it to
(d) That it is too cold with all of the machines
12. Who says: “My God we need a breath of fresh air”?
(a) Lydia
(b) Wendy
(c) Peter
(d) George
13. Where does the family plan on going for vacation?
(a) To Iowa
(b) To Florida
(c) To Oklahoma
(d) To Hawaii
14. What is the nursery a reflection of?
(a) Books the children read
(b) The children’s psyches
(c) The bad things in society
(d) The good things in society
15. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?
(a) George
(b) Peter
(c) David
(d) Lydia
Short Answer Questions
1. What does George try to conjure to get rid of the veldt?
2. From whose perspective is the story told?
3. What happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?
4. What genre is The Veldt?
5. What are their bedrooms called?
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