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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 do George and Lydia notice about the screams?
(a) They sound really close
(b) They sound really far away
(c) They sound familiar
(d) They don’t sound human

2. What do George and Lydia hear while they are lying in bed?
(a) Two screams
(b) The front door opening and closing
(c) Their children whispering
(d) Lions roaring

3. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?
(a) They threaten their parents with violence
(b) They scream and cry, and throw a tantrum
(c) They act indifferent, as if they don’t care
(d) They try to blackmail their parents into turning it back on

4. How do the children tell their parents that they won’t be home for dinner?
(a) They “televised” home to say they’d be late
(b) They called on a cellular phone
(c) They just come home late
(d) They transported an image of themselves

5. 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) The parents take the family on a vacation to Iowa
(c) George and Lydia pack up their children and leave the house forever
(d) Nothing happens, because despite Dr.McClean’s suggestions no changes are made

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?

2. Who comes home late smelling like ozone?

3. Who is the author of The Veldt?

4. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?

5. What is George going to do with the nursery?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In the past, what has David McClean noticed about the nursery?

5. How is dinner served to George and Lydia?

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

7. What does Dr. McClean suggest that George do to the nursery?

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

9. Why does Lydia “bolt and run”?

10. What is odd about the children when Dr.McClean arrives?

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