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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. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?
(a) They try to blackmail their parents into turning it back on
(b) They act indifferent, as if they don’t care
(c) They scream and cry, and throw a tantrum
(d) They threaten their parents with violence

2. How much did the nursery cost in comparison to the rest of the house?
(a) One third as much
(b) Twice as much
(c) One-half as much
(d) Thrice as much

3. What is on the wallet?
(a) Drops of saliva, chew marks, and smears of blood
(b) Nothing; it is clean
(c) Bits of grass, water and mud
(d) A green goo that is undecipherable

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

5. What are their bedrooms called?
(a) Slumber rooms
(b) Flues
(c) Sleepertubes
(d) Bedrooms

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes home late smelling like ozone?

2. What does Lydia hear that George does not?

3. How old are the children?

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

5. When George walks into the nursery with the children, what is there?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the children react when George and David McClean shut the nursery off?

3. What does David McClean find on the floor of 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. 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. Explain Dr.McClean’s comment that children prefer santas over scrooges.

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

8. George threatens to turn the entire house off for a month, how does Peter react?

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

10. Why aren’t Wendy and Peter at dinner?

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