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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says, “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was before”?
(a) Peter Hadley
(b) The psychologist
(c) The wife
(d) The husband

2. What turns on and off as they walk through the house?
(a) The heat
(b) The lights
(c) Music
(d) Television walls

3. What is flying overhead?
(a) Mary Poppins
(b) Ducks
(c) Pterodactyls
(d) Vultures

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

5. Who are they going to have come look at Africa (the nursery) the following morning?
(a) David McLean
(b) Ray Bradbury
(c) Gloria Steinem
(d) George Hadley

6. What concerns George?
(a) George is concerned that the lions were killing and eating, which means that for this to happen his children had thought of death
(b) George is concerned that Lydia doesn’t have enough to do in the house
(c) George is concerned that his children don’t come home for dinner
(d) George is concerned that they don’t have enough money to pay their bills

7. What has happened to the parents at the end of the story?
(a) George and Lydia have been killed by lions by the will of their children
(b) Nothing happens, because despite Dr.McClean’s suggestions no changes are made
(c) The parents take the family on a vacation to Iowa
(d) George and Lydia pack up their children and leave the house forever

8. How does the nursery create scenes?
(a) They are interactive television programs
(b) It creates it telepathically based on what the children are thinking
(c) They are images taken with a camera and then uploaded onto the screens
(d) The scenes are based on books that the children read

9. To whom does the item belong?
(a) George
(b) Wendy
(c) Lydia
(d) Peter

10. How far away are they when the nursery lights come on?
(a) They turn on at the threshold
(b) One foot
(c) Five feet
(d) Ten feet

11. What are the children’s names?
(a) Penelope
(b) Liza, Ray, Flora
(c) Peter and Wendy
(d) Ruby and Max

12. What does Dr.McClean find on the floor?
(a) Dirty dishes
(b) A wallet
(c) A bloodied scarf
(d) A tea cup

13. When was The Veldt published?
(a) 1950
(b) 1960
(c) 1970
(d) 1980

14. What are the lions doing when Dr. McClean walks in?
(a) They are finishing feeding and walking to the waterhole
(b) They are hunting
(c) They are sleeping
(d) They are grooming each other

15. What happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?
(a) George finds a bloody tie tied around the doorknob
(b) They cannot because the door is locked
(c) An alarms sounds
(d) Lydia trips and sprains her ankle

Short Answer Questions

1. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?

2. Who calls George and Lydia into the nursery?

3. How do the children tell their parents that they won’t be home for dinner?

4. What does Dr. McClean state as one of the original uses of the nursery?

5. Where are the lions going?

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