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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where are the lions going?
(a) To hunt
(b) To the watering hole
(c) To bed down for night time
(d) To eat

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described as, “It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon”?

2. From whose perspective is the story told?

3. 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…”?

4. What is David McClean?

5. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lydia hear that George does not – at least at first?

2. How does Peter accidentally confess that they have, in fact, been conjuring Africa?

3. How do Peter and Wendy trick George and Lydia into the nursery?

4. How does the nursery change once George and Lydia enter?

5. Explain the following quote: “And again George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room. A miracle of efficiency selling for an absurdly low price. Every home should have one.”

6. What do the vultures in the African veldt scene indicate?

7. How does Dr. McClean say the nursery feels?

8. George says that his children treat him as if he were the offspring. Provide examples of this sentiment from the text.

9. Where do George and Lydia realize they’ve heard the screams before?

10. Why does George feel perspiration on his brown when he is in the nursery?

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