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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do George and Lydia hear while they are lying in bed?
(a) Their children whispering
(b) Lions roaring
(c) Two screams
(d) The front door opening and closing

2. When was The Veldt published?
(a) 1980
(b) 1950
(c) 1960
(d) 1970

3. What is on the wallet?
(a) Bits of grass, water and mud
(b) Drops of saliva, chew marks, and smears of blood
(c) Nothing; it is clean
(d) A green goo that is undecipherable

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

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

6. What does Dr. McClean say children prefer?
(a) Santas
(b) Destruction
(c) Scrooges
(d) Happiness

7. What does Dr. McClean suggest George and Lydia do to change the path they’re on?
(a) Nothing. You’re on the right path
(b) Nothing. Your life is a like a dream
(c) Burn the house down
(d) Turn everything off. Start new

8. What does the wife want the husband to take a look at?
(a) The furnace
(b) The nursery
(c) The stove
(d) The front door

9. 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

10. Why does Lydia bolt and run?
(a) Someone is ringing the front doorbell
(b) She is suddenly too hot and very thirsty
(c) George tells her to
(d) The lions are coming at them

11. What does Dr.McClean suggest George do to the nursery?
(a) Lock it up
(b) He does not suggest he do anything with the nursery
(c) Pre-program it
(d) Have the room torn down

12. Why do the parents think the children have been acting funny?
(a) The children no longer talk to them
(b) The children are angry with them for working so much
(c) They would not let the children take a rocket to New York
(d) They have cut back on the children’s allowance

13. How much did they pay for their home?
(a) $60,000
(b) $15,000
(c) $30,000
(d) $45,000

14. Complete the sentence: “…the walls began to ________ and recede into __________distance…”?
(a) Shimmer / blinding
(b) Talk / far
(c) Purr / crystalline
(d) Argue / dark

15. What has the room become a channel for?
(a) Education
(b) Dreams
(c) Destructive thoughts
(d) Devastation

Short Answer Questions

1. 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…”?

2. Who initially believes that the nursery walls are too real?

3. What happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?

4. What is George going to do with the nursery?

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

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