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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 has happened to the parents at the end of the story?
(a) George and Lydia have been killed by lions by the will of their children
(b) George and Lydia pack up their children and leave the house forever
(c) Nothing happens, because despite Dr.McClean’s suggestions no changes are made
(d) The parents take the family on a vacation to Iowa

2. Why does George laugh at Lydia?
(a) Because she is afraid of the nursery
(b) Because she makes a joke
(c) Because her skin is so far she is burned by the fake sun in the nursery
(d) Because she trips on her way out of the nursery

3. How do they get to their bedrooms?
(a) By telepathically transporting
(b) Through a wall in the nursery
(c) By taking the stairs
(d) In an air closet that sucks them up to their sleeping chambers

4. What does Dr. McClean think that the room has become more important than?
(a) The children’s real friends
(b) The children’s attendance at school
(c) The children’s real mother and father
(d) The children’s relationship with each other

5. Where does the family plan on going for vacation?
(a) To Iowa
(b) To Hawaii
(c) To Florida
(d) To Oklahoma

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. McClean say children prefer?

2. Where are the lions going?

3. Who calls George and Lydia into the nursery?

4. When was The Veldt published?

5. What form of writing is The Veldt?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When George is sitting at dinner, he begins to think about the African veldt in the nursery. What does he realize the children have been thinking of, and why does it make him uneasy?

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

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

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

6. How is dinner served to George and Lydia?

7. What does Lydia think is wrong with her life?

8. Why does Lydia want George to look at the nursery?

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

10. How do Wendy and Peter react when George asks them about Africa?

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