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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who thinks Wendy changed the nursery from a veldt to a forest?
(a) Ruby
(b) David
(c) Both George and Lydia
(d) Peter

2. What has just been eating in the nursery?
(a) Rabbits
(b) Their children
(c) No one and nothing has been eating in the nursery. The parents don’t allow it.
(d) Lions

3. The following morning, what does Peter ask his father?
(a) If they are going to go on a family vacation this year
(b) If they are going to look up the nursery for good
(c) If he can drink coffee
(d) If he and Wendy can take a rocket to New York

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

5. What is David McClean?
(a) A computer repairman
(b) A psychologist
(c) A physician
(d) A machinist

6. Who initially suggests that the family take a vacation and “shut the house off”?
(a) Wendy
(b) George
(c) Max
(d) Lydia

7. Which word is used to describe the hallway?
(a) Suffocating
(b) Soundproofed
(c) Narrow
(d) Long

8. Who says the following: “But nothing’s too good for our children”?
(a) Peter
(b) David
(c) George
(d) Lydia

9. What does the nursery transform into as George and Lydia are inspecting it?
(a) The Sahara Desert
(b) An African veldt
(c) The Grand Canyon
(d) A tropical jungle

10. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?
(a) The entire house
(b) Lydia’s heart
(c) The door to the nursery
(d) The dining room table

11. How long has the African veldt been in the nursery?
(a) One week
(b) About two weeks
(c) Just this morning
(d) A little over a month

12. What does Dr.McClean suggest George do to the nursery?
(a) Lock it up
(b) Pre-program it
(c) He does not suggest he do anything with the nursery
(d) Have the room torn down

13. What is the problem that Lydia is beginning to feel with the house?
(a) she and George are becoming unnecessary
(b) That it no longer does what she expects it to
(c) She feels that the house is too expensive
(d) That it is too cold with all of the machines

14. What have Peter and Wendy had for dinner at the carnival?
(a) Bread and butter
(b) They have had protein smoothies
(c) They have not had dinner yet
(d) Hot dogs and strawberry ice cream

15. What is the family’s surname?
(a) Hadley
(b) McClean
(c) Bradbury
(d) Rosemont

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?

2. Who says, “I don’t want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do”?

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

4. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?

5. What is on the wallet?

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