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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 says, “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was before”?
(a) The wife
(b) The husband
(c) Peter Hadley
(d) The psychologist

2. From whose perspective is the story told?
(a) Peter Hadley’s
(b) George Hadley’s
(c) David McClean’s
(d) Lydia Hadley’s

3. Who comes home late smelling like ozone?
(a) George and Lydia
(b) David
(c) Max and Ruby
(d) Peter and Wendy

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. McClean think that the room has become more important than?

2. What is the nursery a reflection of?

3. What does George offer David McClean?

4. This is an example of what type of figurative language: “…and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry…”?

5. What have Peter and Wendy had for dinner at the carnival?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lydia “bolt and run”?

2. Explain how the nursery conjures the African veldt.

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. How does Dr. McClean say the nursery feels?

9. How is dinner served to George and Lydia?

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

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