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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 do the beds “try” to do?
(a) Tell them that they didn’t hear anything
(b) Rock Lydia and George to sleep
(c) Wake them up
(d) Nothing; they are just beds

2. Who does George think is spoiled?
(a) Max and Ruby
(b) Peter and Wendy
(c) Lydia
(d) All of them, the entire family

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

4. Who says: “Nothing likes to die—even a room”?
(a) Peter Hadley
(b) Lydia Hadley
(c) David McCLean
(d) George Hadley

5. What is their home called?
(a) A Happylife Home
(b) An Easylife Home
(c) A Healthylife home
(d) A Joyfullife Home

Short Answer Questions

1. 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…”?

2. When Mr. and Mrs. Hadley scream, they realize why the screams they heard before sound familiar. Why is this?

3. How much did they pay for their home?

4. How do they get to their bedrooms?

5. Who initially suggests that the family take a vacation and “shut the house off”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where do George and Lydia realize they’ve heard the screams before?

5. What is odd about the children when Dr.McClean arrives?

6. Explain how the nursery reflects the children’s psyches.

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

8. Where are George and Lydia Hadley?

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

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

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