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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 found on the floor of the nursery?
(a) An old wallet of George’s
(b) Wendy’s blankie
(c) Dirty dishes
(d) Cigarettes

2. Who does the wife want the husband to call, and for what reason?
(a) A psychologist to take a look at the nursery
(b) A furnace repairman to fix the heat
(c) A contractor to stop the leaking roof
(d) A plumber to look at the clogged bathtub

3. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?
(a) George
(b) Peter
(c) Lydia
(d) David

4. Who says, “I don’t want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do”?
(a) Lydia
(b) George
(c) Peter
(d) Wendy

5. What are their bedrooms called?
(a) Bedrooms
(b) Slumber rooms
(c) Flues
(d) Sleepertubes

Short Answer Questions

1. Who initially believes that the nursery walls are too real?

2. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?

3. What form of writing is The Veldt?

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

5. Complete the sentence: “…the walls began to ________ and recede into __________distance…”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Peter threaten his father?

2. Why does George feel perspiration on his brown when he is in the nursery?

3. What does Lydia notice about George as well?

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

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

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

7. Why does Lydia “bolt and run”?

8. How does the nursery change once George and Lydia enter?

9. Why does Lydia say, “The house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid”?

10. How long does he think the children have been conjuring Africa? What had he noticed, but not paid attention to?

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