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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 old are the children?
(a) Ten years old
(b) Seven years old
(c) Three years old
(d) Fifteen years old

2. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?
(a) They threaten their parents with violence
(b) They act indifferent, as if they don’t care
(c) They scream and cry, and throw a tantrum
(d) They try to blackmail their parents into turning it back on

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

4. What happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?
(a) Lydia trips and sprains her ankle
(b) An alarms sounds
(c) George finds a bloody tie tied around the doorknob
(d) They cannot because the door is locked

5. Who says the following: “But I thought that’s why we bought this house, so we wouldn’t have to do anything?”
(a) Ruby
(b) George
(c) Lydia
(d) Peter

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to the parents at the end of the story?

2. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?

3. When Lydia sits down in the chair, what does it do?

4. Who are they going to have come look at Africa (the nursery) the following morning?

5. What do they see when they look to the sky?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What does Lydia hear that George does not – at least at first?

5. What do the vultures in the African veldt scene indicate?

6. What does David McClean find on the floor of the nursery?

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

8. George threatens to turn the entire house off for a month, how does Peter react?

9. How does Peter accidentally confess that they have, in fact, been conjuring Africa?

10. How do Wendy and Peter react when George asks them about Africa?

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