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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 does Dr.McClean find on the floor?

2. When George walks into the nursery with the children, what is there?

3. The following morning, what does Peter ask his father?

4. What is “busy humming it to itself” in the opening paragraphs?

5. What does the nursery transform into as George and Lydia are inspecting it?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do George and Lydia suppose that they cannot change the nursery?

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

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

5. Why is George hesitant to lock up the nursery? What does he fear?

6. George threatens to turn the entire house off for a month, how does Peter react?

7. Why does George cave and turn the nursery on for just “one more minute”?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

George reflects on the magnificence and cost of the nursery. What is the nursery’s purpose?

What does the title of nursery for this room suggest? How accurate is its title? What has it replaced in this home?

Essay Topic 3

The story begins with Lydia’s concern regarding the nursery due to the African veldt, the lions and the reoccurring screams. The nursery reflects the children’s psyche.

What seems to be the problem with the nursery? Why is it concerning to George and Lydia? What does it suggest that the children are thinking about?

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