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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 turns on and off as they walk through the house?
2. Who says, “I don’t want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do”?
3. What do George and Lydia hear while they are lying in bed?
4. What does Lydia hear that George does not?
5. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?
Short Essay Questions
1. George threatens to turn the entire house off for a month, how does Peter react?
2. What does David McClean find on the floor of the nursery?
3. How do Wendy and Peter tell their parents that they will be late for dinner?
4. Describe the sensory experience of the nursery. What senses does the nursery appeal to? Use a description from the text as an example.
5. 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?
6. What does George find of his in the corner where the lions where feeding?
7. How does Dr. McClean say the nursery feels?
8. What does Dr. McClean suggest that George do to the nursery?
9. Why does Lydia want George to look at the nursery?
10. Why is George hesitant to lock up the nursery? What does he fear?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Which secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.
Essay Topic 2
When Lydia first notices that something is not quite right about the nursery, she wants to call a psychologist. What function do psychologists have in this society?
Why does Lydia feel it is necessary to call a psychologist for the nursery? How are the profession and the machine connected? What will the psychologist analyze? What information can be gained? What is David McClean’s reaction to the nursery? How does he represent the voice of reason?
Essay Topic 3
Bradbury’s work is commentary on his prediction of society projected forward from 1950.
Based on the central conflict of man versus machine and loss of human connection, describe the values of this society. Why must they live in a Happylife home? Why do George and Lydia believe that nothing is good enough for their children? What is suggested by the fact that they take sedatives to go to sleep at night?
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