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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. Who threatens George?
(a) David
(b) Peter
(c) Wendy
(d) The nursery

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

4. What does the nursery transform into as George and Lydia are inspecting it?
(a) The Sahara Desert
(b) A tropical jungle
(c) The Grand Canyon
(d) An African veldt

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

6. What is “busy humming it to itself” in the opening paragraphs?
(a) The nursery
(b) The robot maid
(c) The baby
(d) The stove

7. What is their home called?
(a) A Joyfullife Home
(b) A Healthylife home
(c) An Easylife Home
(d) A Happylife Home

8. What are their bedrooms called?
(a) Slumber rooms
(b) Flues
(c) Sleepertubes
(d) Bedrooms

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

10. 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 simile
(c) Alliteration
(d) A metaphor

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

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

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

14. What turns on and off as they walk through the house?
(a) Music
(b) The heat
(c) Television walls
(d) The lights

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the husband’s name?

2. What has just been eating in the nursery?

3. What do George and Lydia think is broken?

4. What is flying overhead?

5. What do George and Lydia notice about the screams?

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