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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children are there in the family?
(a) Four
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Three

2. 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) A simile
(b) Alliteration
(c) Personification
(d) A metaphor

3. What is George going to do with the nursery?
(a) Nothing; he doesn’t think that anything is wrong with the nursery
(b) Nothing; he doesn’t want to deal with the children throwing a tantrum
(c) 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
(d) He is going to secretly take out the machine and pretend like he doesn’t know what is wrong

4. What does Lydia hear that George does not?
(a) Songbirds
(b) A scream
(c) Their children calling them
(d) Classical music

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was before”?

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

3. When George and David enter the nursery, what are the lions doing?

4. What is the husband’s name?

5. Who comes home late smelling like ozone?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why hadn’t George paid any attention to the situation before?

2. Explain the following quote: “Now we’re really going to start living. Instead of being handled and massaged, we’re going to live.”

3. Why does George cave and turn the nursery on for just “one more minute”?

4. What does Lydia believe the lions have just been doing? How does she know this?

5. What does George hear just as he enters the nursery (for the second time in the story)?

6. Why is George hesitant to lock up the nursery? What does he fear?

7. Describe the nursery. Why is it a special room? What are the dimensions?

8. How does the house take care of them?

9. Why does Lydia want George to lock up the nursery?

10. What does George’s reaction to Lydia’s fear signify?

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