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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 has the room become a channel for?

2. How old are the children?

3. What does the found item smell like?

4. What are the lions doing when Dr. McClean walks in?

5. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do Wendy and Peter react when George asks them about Africa?

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

5. What do the vultures in the African veldt scene indicate?

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

7. 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?

8. Why does Lydia want George to lock up the nursery?

9. What is odd about the children when Dr.McClean arrives?

10. How do Wendy and Peter tell their parents that they will be late for dinner?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

It is clear that the relationship between George and Lydia and their children is strained. At one point in the short story, George mentions that he and Lydia are treated like the offspring and not the parents.

Describe the relationship between the parents and children. How do George and Lydia know something isn’t right with their children?

Essay Topic 3

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.?

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