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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 trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?
(a) The door to the nursery
(b) Lydia’s heart
(c) The dining room table
(d) The entire house
2. What is supposed to help the children “work off their neuroses in a healthful way”?
(a) Their robot friends
(b) Their special school
(c) Their designated nap times
(d) The nursery
3. What genre is The Veldt?
(a) Memoir
(b) Romance
(c) Chick lit
(d) Science fiction
4. What do George and Lydia think is broken?
(a) The stove
(b) The front door
(c) The dining room table
(d) The nursery machinery
5. What has just been eating in the nursery?
(a) Rabbits
(b) Lions
(c) Their children
(d) No one and nothing has been eating in the nursery. The parents don’t allow it.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are their bedrooms called?
2. What is the family’s surname?
3. What doesn’t Dr. McClean think “feels good”?
4. How many children are there in the family?
5. When George walks into the nursery with the children, what is there?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Peter and Wendy trick George and Lydia into the nursery?
2. Why is George hesitant to lock up the nursery? What does he fear?
3. Why hadn’t George paid any attention to the situation before?
4. What does George hear just as he enters the nursery (for the second time in the story)?
5. How long does he think the children have been conjuring Africa? What had he noticed, but not paid attention to?
6. What does Lydia hear that George does not – at least at first?
7. Explain the following quote: “Now we’re really going to start living. Instead of being handled and massaged, we’re going to live.”
8. What does Dr. McClean suggest that George do to the nursery?
9. How do Wendy and Peter react when George asks them about Africa?
10. Explain how the nursery conjures the African veldt.
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