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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 does George offer David McClean?
(a) A cup of tea
(b) Breakfast
(c) The newspaper
(d) A ride back to his office

2. What is their home called?
(a) A Happylife Home
(b) A Joyfullife Home
(c) A Healthylife home
(d) An Easylife Home

3. What does Peter admit to?
(a) Secretly taking the trip to New York
(b) Sneaking out of the house
(c) Re-programming the house systems
(d) Conjuring up Africa

4. What turns on and off as they walk through the house?
(a) Television walls
(b) The lights
(c) Music
(d) The heat

5. The following morning, what does Peter ask his father?
(a) If they are going to look up the nursery for good
(b) If they are going to go on a family vacation this year
(c) If he and Wendy can take a rocket to New York
(d) If he can drink coffee

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the problem that Lydia is beginning to feel with the house?

2. Why do the parents think the children have been acting funny?

3. What doesn’t Dr. McClean think “feels good”?

4. What do they see when they look to the sky?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Peter threaten his father?

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

3. Describe the sensory experience of the nursery. What senses does the nursery appeal to? Use a description from the text as an example.

4. Why hadn’t George paid any attention to the situation before?

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

6. Why does George feel perspiration on his brown when he is in the nursery?

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. How does the house take care of them?

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

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

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