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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. Who says: “Nothing likes to die—even a room”?
(a) George Hadley
(b) Peter Hadley
(c) David McCLean
(d) Lydia Hadley

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

3. Who is the author of The Veldt?
(a) Ray Bradbury
(b) Raymond Carver
(c) Vladimir Nabokov
(d) Daniel Quinn

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

5. What are the dimensions of the nursery?
(a) 20 feet across X 40 feet long X 30 feet high
(b) 40 feet across X 40 feet long X 30 feet high
(c) 10 feet across X 15 feet long X 12 feet high
(d) 40 feet across X 40 feet long X 10 feet high

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the room become a channel for?

2. What has just been eating in the nursery?

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 does Lydia hear that George does not?

5. Why do the parents think the children have been acting funny?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how the nursery conjures the African veldt.

2. What does David McClean find on the floor of the nursery?

3. Explain Dr.McClean’s comment that children prefer santas over scrooges.

4. George threatens to turn the entire house off for a month, how does Peter react?

5. Why does George laugh at Lydia once she runs out of the nursery?

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

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

8. What does Lydia believe the lions have just been doing? How does she know this?

9. Why does George cave and turn the nursery on for just “one more minute”?

10. How does Lydia propose to change her feelings of worthlessness?

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