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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. Who initially believes that the nursery walls are too real?
(a) Wendy
(b) George
(c) Peter
(d) Lydia

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

3. Why does George laugh at Lydia?
(a) Because her skin is so far she is burned by the fake sun in the nursery
(b) Because she is afraid of the nursery
(c) Because she makes a joke
(d) Because she trips on her way out of the nursery

4. What does George try to conjure to get rid of the veldt?
(a) Rima and the jungle
(b) Aladdin and his lamp
(c) His favorite childhood fishing spot
(d) The prairie grasses of the Great Plains

5. How much did they pay for their home?
(a) $60,000
(b) $45,000
(c) $15,000
(d) $30,000

Short Answer Questions

1. What form of writing is The Veldt?

2. Who are they going to have come look at Africa (the nursery) the following morning?

3. What has the room become a channel for?

4. How long has the African veldt been in the nursery?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Peter accidentally confess that they have, in fact, been conjuring Africa?

2. Explain Dr.McClean’s comment that children prefer santas over scrooges.

3. How do Peter and Wendy trick George and Lydia into the nursery?

4. How long does he think the children have been conjuring Africa? What had he noticed, but not paid attention to?

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

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

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

8. How does the nursery change once George and Lydia enter?

9. In the past, what has David McClean noticed about the nursery?

10. Explain the following quote: “Now we’re really going to start living. Instead of being handled and massaged, we’re going to live.”

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