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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 genre is The Veldt?
(a) Memoir
(b) Romance
(c) Chick lit
(d) Science fiction
2. To whom does the item belong?
(a) Wendy
(b) George
(c) Peter
(d) Lydia
3. When Lydia sits down in the chair, what does it do?
(a) Offers her a cup of coffee
(b) Puts a blanket on her
(c) It does nothing; it is a chair
(d) It rocks and comforts her
4. What do George and Lydia think is broken?
(a) The stove
(b) The front door
(c) The dining room table
(d) The nursery machinery
5. What is their home called?
(a) A Healthylife home
(b) A Joyfullife Home
(c) An Easylife Home
(d) A Happylife Home
Short Answer Questions
1. Who calls George and Lydia into the nursery?
2. Who thinks Wendy changed the nursery from a veldt to a forest?
3. What is the family’s surname?
4. What is George going to do with the nursery?
5. How do the children tell their parents that they won’t be home for dinner?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Lydia “bolt and run”?
2. What does Dr. McClean suggest that George do to the nursery?
3. How does the nursery change once George and Lydia enter?
4. What is odd about the children when Dr.McClean arrives?
5. How do Wendy and Peter react when George asks them about Africa?
6. What does Lydia hear that George does not – at least at first?
7. Explain how the nursery conjures the African veldt.
8. Why do George and Lydia suppose that they cannot change the nursery?
9. Lydia says about the nursery: “It’s supposed to help them work off their neuroses in a healthful way.” What does this mean? Has it worked?
10. What does Lydia believe the lions have just been doing? How does she know this?
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