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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. Who calls George and Lydia into the nursery?
(a) David McClean
(b) The nursery calls them
(c) Max and Ruby
(d) Peter and Wendy

3. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?
(a) French fries
(b) Ketchup
(c) Dinner plates
(d) Tea

4. How old are the children?
(a) Ten years old
(b) Fifteen years old
(c) Seven years old
(d) Three years old

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

6. When Mr. and Mrs. Hadley scream, they realize why the screams they heard before sound familiar. Why is this?
(a) They were hearing the screams of their children
(b) They were hearing their own screams
(c) The screams sounded familiar because they heard them repeatedly
(d) They were hearing their neighbor’s screams

7. What is found on the floor of the nursery?
(a) An old wallet of George’s
(b) Dirty dishes
(c) Cigarettes
(d) Wendy’s blankie

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

9. What does Peter admit to?
(a) Secretly taking the trip to New York
(b) Conjuring up Africa
(c) Sneaking out of the house
(d) Re-programming the house systems

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

11. What does Dr. McClean state as one of the original uses of the nursery?
(a) To watch the children so that the adults may live their lives
(b) To fill their minds with knowledge of the world
(c) To entertain the children
(d) So that we could study patterns left on the walls by the child’s mind, study at our leisure and help the child

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

13. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?
(a) Having a formal dinner in the dinging room
(b) Eating lunch in what looks like an open glade in the nursery
(c) Napping in their beds
(d) Playing video games on the wall TVs in the living room

14. How long will it take to make “good children out of bad”?
(a) It is not necessary because Dr.McClean thinks that they are great as they are
(b) It is an impossible task
(c) Five years
(d) A year

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The following morning, what does Peter ask his father?

2. How much did they pay for their home?

3. How far away are they when the nursery lights come on?

4. What are their bedrooms called?

5. When was The Veldt published?

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