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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. What is the nursery a reflection of?
(a) The good things in society
(b) The bad things in society
(c) Books the children read
(d) The children’s psyches
2. How much did they pay for their home?
(a) $15,000
(b) $30,000
(c) $60,000
(d) $45,000
3. Why do the parents think the children have been acting funny?
(a) The children no longer talk to them
(b) The children are angry with them for working so much
(c) They would not let the children take a rocket to New York
(d) They have cut back on the children’s allowance
4. Why does Lydia bolt and run?
(a) Someone is ringing the front doorbell
(b) George tells her to
(c) She is suddenly too hot and very thirsty
(d) The lions are coming at them
5. Why does George laugh at Lydia?
(a) Because she is afraid of the nursery
(b) Because she trips on her way out of the nursery
(c) Because her skin is so far she is burned by the fake sun in the nursery
(d) Because she makes a joke
Short Answer Questions
1. What is David McClean?
2. What is “busy humming it to itself” in the opening paragraphs?
3. How far away are they when the nursery lights come on?
4. What does Dr.McClean suggest George do to the nursery?
5. What does Lydia hear that George does not?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does George hear just as he enters the nursery (for the second time in the story)?
2. Explain the following quote: “And again George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room. A miracle of efficiency selling for an absurdly low price. Every home should have one.”
3. What does Lydia hear that George does not – at least at first?
4. When George is sitting at dinner, he begins to think about the African veldt in the nursery. What does he realize the children have been thinking of, and why does it make him uneasy?
5. Why does Lydia want George to look at the nursery?
6. What do they see when they all walk into the nursery together so that George can prove Africa is in there?
7. Where are George and Lydia Hadley?
8. How do Wendy and Peter tell their parents that they will be late for dinner?
9. Where do George and Lydia realize they’ve heard the screams before?
10. Why does Lydia want George to lock up the nursery?
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