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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. Who threatens George?
(a) Peter
(b) The nursery
(c) Wendy
(d) David
2. How do they get to their bedrooms?
(a) Through a wall in the nursery
(b) By telepathically transporting
(c) By taking the stairs
(d) In an air closet that sucks them up to their sleeping chambers
3. What is David McClean?
(a) A machinist
(b) A physician
(c) A computer repairman
(d) A psychologist
4. How does the nursery create scenes?
(a) The scenes are based on books that the children read
(b) It creates it telepathically based on what the children are thinking
(c) They are interactive television programs
(d) They are images taken with a camera and then uploaded onto the screens
5. What does Dr.McClean find on the floor?
(a) A tea cup
(b) A bloodied scarf
(c) Dirty dishes
(d) A wallet
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the beds “try” to do?
2. What concerns George?
3. What is flying overhead?
4. Who calls George and Lydia into the nursery?
5. What is found on the floor of the nursery?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the past, what has David McClean noticed about the nursery?
2. Explain Dr.McClean’s comment that children prefer santas over scrooges.
3. George threatens to turn the entire house off for a month, how does Peter react?
4. Why does Lydia want George to look at the nursery?
5. Why aren’t Wendy and Peter at dinner?
6. What does Lydia believe the lions have just been doing? How does she know this?
7. 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?
8. How does Lydia propose to change her feelings of worthlessness?
9. Explain how the nursery conjures the African veldt.
10. Describe the sensory experience of the nursery. What senses does the nursery appeal to? Use a description from the text as an example.
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