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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do the beds “try” to do?
(a) Nothing; they are just beds
(b) Rock Lydia and George to sleep
(c) Wake them up
(d) Tell them that they didn’t hear anything

4. What does George offer David McClean?
(a) A cup of tea
(b) A ride back to his office
(c) The newspaper
(d) Breakfast

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

6. What does Peter admit to?
(a) Re-programming the house systems
(b) Sneaking out of the house
(c) Conjuring up Africa
(d) Secretly taking the trip to New York

7. Who initially believes that the nursery walls are too real?
(a) George
(b) Peter
(c) Wendy
(d) Lydia

8. What has the room become a channel for?
(a) Education
(b) Destructive thoughts
(c) Devastation
(d) Dreams

9. What is the wife’s name?
(a) Rachel
(b) Lydia
(c) Wendy
(d) Lois

10. When Mr. and Mrs. Hadley scream, they realize why the screams they heard before sound familiar. Why is this?
(a) They were hearing the screams of their children
(b) The screams sounded familiar because they heard them repeatedly
(c) They were hearing their neighbor’s screams
(d) They were hearing their own screams

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

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

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

14. What genre is The Veldt?
(a) Chick lit
(b) Romance
(c) Science fiction
(d) Memoir

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the lions going?

2. Who thinks Wendy changed the nursery from a veldt to a forest?

3. How far away are they when the nursery lights come on?

4. Who does George think is spoiled?

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

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