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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 supposed to help the children “work off their neuroses in a healthful way”?
(a) Their robot friends
(b) Their designated nap times
(c) Their special school
(d) The nursery

2. Where do George and Lydia believe Wendy and Peter are?
(a) At school
(b) In the nursery
(c) At a plastic carnival across town
(d) At their robot friend’s house

3. What is Lydia’s initial solution?
(a) To tear the room down
(b) To get rid of the machines
(c) To lock the nursery for a few days until her nerves are settled
(d) To do nothing; the children will throw a fit

4. When Mr. and Mrs. Hadley scream, they realize why the screams they heard before sound familiar. Why is this?
(a) They were hearing the screams of their children
(b) They were hearing their own screams
(c) They were hearing their neighbor’s screams
(d) The screams sounded familiar because they heard them repeatedly

5. When was The Veldt published?
(a) 1980
(b) 1970
(c) 1950
(d) 1960

Short Answer Questions

1. How far away are they when the nursery lights come on?

2. What is flying overhead?

3. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?

4. Who comes home late smelling like ozone?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where are George and Lydia Hadley?

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Lydia want George to look at the nursery?

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

8. How do Wendy and Peter tell their parents that they will be late for dinner?

9. What does Dr. McClean suggest that George do to the nursery?

10. What does George find of his in the corner where the lions where feeding?

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