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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 happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?
(a) George finds a bloody tie tied around the doorknob
(b) An alarms sounds
(c) Lydia trips and sprains her ankle
(d) They cannot because the door is locked

2. What does the wife want the husband to take a look at?
(a) The furnace
(b) The front door
(c) The nursery
(d) The stove

3. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?
(a) The door to the nursery
(b) The dining room table
(c) The entire house
(d) Lydia’s heart

4. To whom does the item belong?
(a) Wendy
(b) Lydia
(c) Peter
(d) George

5. When George walks into the nursery with the children, what is there?
(a) Rima, and a lovely lush green forest
(b) The Grand Canyon
(c) The African veldt
(d) Nothing; the walls are blank

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. McClean state as one of the original uses of the nursery?

2. What do the beds “try” to do?

3. What is flying overhead?

4. What has happened to the parents at the end of the story?

5. What is on the wallet?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why hadn’t George paid any attention to the situation before?

4. Explain how the nursery conjures the African veldt.

5. Why is George hesitant to lock up the nursery? What does he fear?

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

7. Describe the nursery. Why is it a special room? What are the dimensions?

8. What do they see when they all walk into the nursery together so that George can prove Africa is in there?

9. Explain the following quote: “Now we’re really going to start living. Instead of being handled and massaged, we’re going to live.”

10. Why do George and Lydia suppose that they cannot change the nursery?

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