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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the wife want the husband to call, and for what reason?
(a) A furnace repairman to fix the heat
(b) A plumber to look at the clogged bathtub
(c) A contractor to stop the leaking roof
(d) A psychologist to take a look at the nursery

2. What is Lydia’s initial solution?
(a) To get rid of the machines
(b) To lock the nursery for a few days until her nerves are settled
(c) To tear the room down
(d) To do nothing; the children will throw a fit

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

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

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

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

7. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?
(a) George
(b) David
(c) Peter
(d) Lydia

8. Who calls George and Lydia into the nursery?
(a) David McClean
(b) The nursery calls them
(c) Max and Ruby
(d) Peter and Wendy

9. What does Dr. McClean state as one of the original uses of the nursery?
(a) To fill their minds with knowledge of the world
(b) To entertain the children
(c) So that we could study patterns left on the walls by the child’s mind, study at our leisure and help the child
(d) To watch the children so that the adults may live their lives

10. Why does Lydia bolt and run?
(a) She is suddenly too hot and very thirsty
(b) The lions are coming at them
(c) Someone is ringing the front doorbell
(d) George tells her to

11. How much did they pay for their home?
(a) $45,000
(b) $15,000
(c) $60,000
(d) $30,000

12. What is supposed to help the children “work off their neuroses in a healthful way”?
(a) Their designated nap times
(b) The nursery
(c) Their special school
(d) Their robot friends

13. What does Dr.McClean say that George has become?
(a) A santa
(b) An angel
(c) A scrooge
(d) A troll

14. Who says: “My God we need a breath of fresh air”?
(a) Lydia
(b) George
(c) Wendy
(d) Peter

15. Who says, “I don’t want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do”?
(a) Lydia
(b) George
(c) Peter
(d) Wendy

Short Answer Questions

1. What genre is The Veldt?

2. This is an example of what type of figurative language: “…and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry…”?

3. Who does George think is spoiled?

4. What does Lydia hear that George does not?

5. What has the room become a channel for?

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