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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 happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?
(a) Lydia trips and sprains her ankle
(b) An alarms sounds
(c) George finds a bloody tie tied around the doorknob
(d) They cannot because the door is locked

2. Who calls George and Lydia into the nursery?
(a) David McClean
(b) The nursery calls them
(c) Max and Ruby
(d) Peter and Wendy

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

4. When George walks into the nursery with the children, what is there?
(a) The Grand Canyon
(b) The African veldt
(c) Rima, and a lovely lush green forest
(d) Nothing; the walls are blank

5. How does the nursery create scenes?
(a) They are images taken with a camera and then uploaded onto the screens
(b) It creates it telepathically based on what the children are thinking
(c) The scenes are based on books that the children read
(d) They are interactive television programs

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does George think is spoiled?

5. Who says, “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was before”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When George is sitting at dinner, he begins to think about the African veldt in the nursery. What does he realize the children have been thinking of, and why does it make him uneasy?

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

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

6. How is dinner served to George and Lydia?

7. Lydia says about the nursery: “It’s supposed to help them work off their neuroses in a healthful way.” What does this mean? Has it worked?

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

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

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

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