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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 they get to their bedrooms?
(a) In an air closet that sucks them up to their sleeping chambers
(b) Through a wall in the nursery
(c) By taking the stairs
(d) By telepathically transporting

2. Where do George and Lydia believe Wendy and Peter are?
(a) At a plastic carnival across town
(b) At their robot friend’s house
(c) At school
(d) In the nursery

3. What do George and Lydia think is broken?
(a) The front door
(b) The stove
(c) The dining room table
(d) The nursery machinery

4. What do George and Lydia hear while they are lying in bed?
(a) Two screams
(b) The front door opening and closing
(c) Their children whispering
(d) Lions roaring

5. What is the nursery a reflection of?
(a) Books the children read
(b) The children’s psyches
(c) The good things in society
(d) The bad things in society

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the children’s names?

2. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?

3. What is found on the floor of the nursery?

4. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?

5. When was The Veldt published?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do they see when they all walk into the nursery together so that George can prove Africa is in there?

2. How does the house take care of them?

3. George says that his children treat him as if he were the offspring. Provide examples of this sentiment from the text.

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

5. How does Lydia propose to change her feelings of worthlessness?

6. What does David McClean find on the floor of 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. What does Lydia hear that George does not – at least at first?

9. 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?

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

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