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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Turn everything off. Start new
(c) Nothing. Your life is a like a dream
(d) Burn the house down

2. What does the found item smell like?
(a) Cigarette smoke
(b) Hot grass and lion
(c) Rain and ferns
(d) Old cheese and meat

3. What genre is The Veldt?
(a) Chick lit
(b) Memoir
(c) Science fiction
(d) Romance

4. What is supposed to help the children “work off their neuroses in a healthful way”?
(a) Their designated nap times
(b) The nursery
(c) Their robot friends
(d) Their special school

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

6. What does George try to conjure to get rid of the veldt?
(a) His favorite childhood fishing spot
(b) Aladdin and his lamp
(c) The prairie grasses of the Great Plains
(d) Rima and the jungle

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

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

9. Who says, “I don’t want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do”?
(a) Wendy
(b) George
(c) Lydia
(d) Peter

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

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

12. Who initially suggests that the family take a vacation and “shut the house off”?
(a) Lydia
(b) Max
(c) Wendy
(d) George

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the lions going?

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

3. Why does Lydia bolt and run?

4. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?

5. What is David McClean?

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