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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the lions doing when Dr. McClean walks in?
(a) They are hunting
(b) They are grooming each other
(c) They are sleeping
(d) They are finishing feeding and walking to the waterhole

2. Who initially believes that the nursery walls are too real?
(a) Wendy
(b) George
(c) Peter
(d) Lydia

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

4. To whom does the item belong?
(a) Peter
(b) Wendy
(c) Lydia
(d) George

5. Where does the family plan on going for vacation?
(a) To Oklahoma
(b) To Hawaii
(c) To Iowa
(d) To Florida

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

7. What is George going to do with the nursery?
(a) Nothing; he doesn’t want to deal with the children throwing a tantrum
(b) Nothing; he doesn’t think that anything is wrong with the nursery
(c) He is going to secretly take out the machine and pretend like he doesn’t know what is wrong
(d) Keep it locked until he can figure out what is going on and why it is the veldt, and why his walled was in there

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

9. What does Dr.McClean find on the floor?
(a) A bloodied scarf
(b) Dirty dishes
(c) A wallet
(d) A tea cup

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

11. What do George and Lydia notice about the screams?
(a) They sound really close
(b) They sound familiar
(c) They don’t sound human
(d) They sound really far away

12. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?
(a) The entire house
(b) The door to the nursery
(c) Lydia’s heart
(d) The dining room table

13. What does Wendy offer Dr.McClean?
(a) A ham and cheese sandwich
(b) A cup of coffee
(c) A cup of tea
(d) A scone and jam

14. Who are they going to have come look at Africa (the nursery) the following morning?
(a) Gloria Steinem
(b) David McLean
(c) Ray Bradbury
(d) George Hadley

15. What is flying overhead?
(a) Vultures
(b) Ducks
(c) Pterodactyls
(d) Mary Poppins

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the children tell their parents that they won’t be home for dinner?

2. Dinner is being prepared for a family of ________.

3. What is described as, “It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon”?

4. Who is the author of The Veldt?

5. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?

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