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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 are the children’s names?
(a) Liza, Ray, Flora
(b) Ruby and Max
(c) Penelope
(d) Peter and Wendy

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

3. What is the husband’s name?
(a) Leonard
(b) George
(c) Randall
(d) David

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

5. What is David McClean?
(a) A computer repairman
(b) A physician
(c) A machinist
(d) A psychologist

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word is used to describe the hallway?

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

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

4. Who thinks Wendy changed the nursery from a veldt to a forest?

5. What has the room become a channel for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the house take care of them?

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

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

4. 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.”

5. Why hadn’t George paid any attention to the situation before?

6. Before the African veldt, what did the children conjure in the nursery?

7. What does George’s reaction to Lydia’s fear signify?

8. Why is George hesitant to lock up the nursery? What does he fear?

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

10. Explain how the nursery conjures the African veldt.

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