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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 have Peter and Wendy had for dinner at the carnival?
(a) They have not had dinner yet
(b) Hot dogs and strawberry ice cream
(c) They have had protein smoothies
(d) Bread and butter

2. Why does Lydia bolt and run?
(a) George tells her to
(b) Someone is ringing the front doorbell
(c) The lions are coming at them
(d) She is suddenly too hot and very thirsty

3. What is the husband’s name?
(a) Leonard
(b) Randall
(c) George
(d) David

4. What is Lydia’s initial solution?
(a) To do nothing; the children will throw a fit
(b) To lock the nursery for a few days until her nerves are settled
(c) To get rid of the machines
(d) To tear the room down

5. What turns on and off as they walk through the house?
(a) Television walls
(b) The lights
(c) Music
(d) The heat

Short Answer Questions

1. Complete the sentence: “…the walls began to ________ and recede into __________distance…”?

2. Where are the lions going?

3. What is supposed to help the children “work off their neuroses in a healthful way”?

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

5. What does George try to conjure to get rid of the veldt?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why aren’t Wendy and Peter at dinner?

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

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

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

5. How does the house take care of them?

6. What does George find of his in the corner where the lions where feeding?

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

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

9. Why does Lydia say, “The house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid”?

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

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