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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, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?
(a) Lydia
(b) David
(c) George
(d) Peter
2. What have Peter and Wendy had for dinner at the carnival?
(a) Hot dogs and strawberry ice cream
(b) Bread and butter
(c) They have not had dinner yet
(d) They have had protein smoothies
3. What do George and Lydia notice about the screams?
(a) They don’t sound human
(b) They sound familiar
(c) They sound really far away
(d) They sound really close
4. What doesn’t Dr. McClean think “feels good”?
(a) The carpet under his feet
(b) The nursery
(c) George’s emotions
(d) The emotion of the paint colors the Hadley’s chose
5. Why does George laugh at Lydia?
(a) Because she makes a joke
(b) Because her skin is so far she is burned by the fake sun in the nursery
(c) Because she trips on her way out of the nursery
(d) Because she is afraid of the nursery
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the problem that Lydia is beginning to feel with the house?
2. Who says the following: “But nothing’s too good for our children”?
3. What does George offer David McClean?
4. 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…”?
5. What form of writing is The Veldt?
Short Essay Questions
1. George threatens to turn the entire house off for a month, how does Peter react?
2. What does George hear just as he enters the nursery (for the second time in the story)?
3. Why do George and Lydia suppose that they cannot change the nursery?
4. How does Dr. McClean say the nursery feels?
5. George says that his children treat him as if he were the offspring. Provide examples of this sentiment from the text.
6. What does Lydia hear that George does not – at least at first?
7. Before the African veldt, what did the children conjure in the nursery?
8. Why does George feel perspiration on his brown when he is in the nursery?
9. Explain Dr.McClean’s comment that children prefer santas over scrooges.
10. Explain the following quote: “Now we’re really going to start living. Instead of being handled and massaged, we’re going to live.”
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