3. What has just been eating in the nursery?
(a) Lions
(b) Their children
(c) No one and nothing has been eating in the nursery. The parents don’t allow it.
(d) Rabbits

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

5. Who says, “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was before”?
(a) Peter Hadley
(b) The wife
(c) The husband
(d) The psychologist

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the wife’s name?

2. What does the wife want the husband to take a look at?

3. Who does the wife want the husband to call, and for what reason?

4. Who comes home late smelling like ozone?

5. Who does George think is spoiled?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how the nursery conjures the African veldt.

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. How is dinner served to George and Lydia?

4. Why does George cave and turn the nursery on for just “one more minute”?

5. How does Peter threaten his father?

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

7. How does Lydia propose to change her feelings of worthlessness?

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

9. What does Lydia think is wrong with her life?

10. George says that his children treat him as if he were the offspring. Provide examples of this sentiment from the text.

(see the answer keys)

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