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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are the dimensions of the nursery?
2. How does the nursery create scenes?
3. What concerns George?
4. What happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?
5. Who says: “Nothing likes to die—even a room”?
Short Essay Questions
1. George threatens to turn the entire house off for a month, how does Peter react?
2. Where do George and Lydia realize they’ve heard the screams before?
3. What does George find of his in the corner where the lions where feeding?
4. 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?
5. How is dinner served to George and Lydia?
6. How does the nursery change once George and Lydia enter?
7. Why do George and Lydia suppose that they cannot change the nursery?
8. What does Lydia believe the lions have just been doing? How does she know this?
9. How does Dr. McClean say the nursery feels?
10. 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.”
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels.
Compare and contrast the characters of George and Lydia. How do they react differently to the children? To the nursery? How are their reactions similar? How do they view their lives as a family? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples.?
Essay Topic 2
Stories can be plot or character driven, or even both with a balance of the two.
What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven or action driven? Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why? Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character are developed to the same degree? Why or why not? Explain your response.
Essay Topic 3
Foreshadowing is used in almost all works of fiction.
What is foreshadowing? Identify three instances of foreshadowing in The Veldt and what they foreshadow? How does foreshadowing contribute to a story's suspense? Are there any incidences that you thought foreshadows a future event, but it does not do so?
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