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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do the children tell their parents that they won’t be home for dinner?
(a) They “televised” home to say they’d be late
(b) They transported an image of themselves
(c) They called on a cellular phone
(d) They just come home late

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

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

5. Why do the parents think the children have been acting funny?
(a) The children are angry with them for working so much
(b) The children no longer talk to them
(c) They would not let the children take a rocket to New York
(d) They have cut back on the children’s allowance

6. Who comes home late smelling like ozone?
(a) George and Lydia
(b) Peter and Wendy
(c) David
(d) Max and Ruby

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

8. What does Dr. McClean suggest George and Lydia do to change the path they’re on?
(a) Nothing. You’re on the right path
(b) Turn everything off. Start new
(c) Burn the house down
(d) Nothing. Your life is a like a dream

9. Complete the sentence: “…the walls began to ________ and recede into __________distance…”?
(a) Purr / crystalline
(b) Shimmer / blinding
(c) Talk / far
(d) Argue / dark

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

11. Who says the following: “But I thought that’s why we bought this house, so we wouldn’t have to do anything?”
(a) Ruby
(b) Peter
(c) Lydia
(d) George

12. Why does George laugh at Lydia?
(a) Because her skin is so far she is burned by the fake sun in the nursery
(b) Because she is afraid of the nursery
(c) Because she makes a joke
(d) Because she trips on her way out of the nursery

13. What does Dr. McClean think that the room has become more important than?
(a) The children’s attendance at school
(b) The children’s relationship with each other
(c) The children’s real friends
(d) The children’s real mother and father

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nursery a reflection of?

2. What does George try to conjure to get rid of the veldt?

3. What do George and Lydia notice about the screams?

4. What do the beds “try” to do?

5. What is the problem that Lydia is beginning to feel with the house?

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