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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 has just been eating in the nursery?
(a) Lions
(b) No one and nothing has been eating in the nursery. The parents don’t allow it.
(c) Rabbits
(d) Their children

2. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?
(a) French fries
(b) Tea
(c) Dinner plates
(d) Ketchup

3. Who says: “Nothing likes to die—even a room”?
(a) Peter Hadley
(b) George Hadley
(c) David McCLean
(d) Lydia Hadley

4. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?
(a) The entire house
(b) The door to the nursery
(c) Lydia’s heart
(d) The dining room table

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is “busy humming it to itself” in the opening paragraphs?

2. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?

3. What has the room become a channel for?

4. How do the children tell their parents that they won’t be home for dinner?

5. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.”

2. 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?

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

4. Where are George and Lydia Hadley?

5. 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?

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

7. Why does Lydia want George to lock up the nursery?

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

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

10. How does Peter threaten his father?

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