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

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 are the children’s names?
(a) Liza, Ray, Flora
(b) Penelope
(c) Ruby and Max
(d) Peter and Wendy

4. What is described as, “It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon”?
(a) The backyard
(b) The kitchen
(c) The outside
(d) The nursery

5. Who are they going to have come look at Africa (the nursery) the following morning?
(a) David McLean
(b) George Hadley
(c) Ray Bradbury
(d) Gloria Steinem

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children are there in the family?

2. Who threatens George?

3. Who does the wife want the husband to call, and for what reason?

4. What is the family’s surname?

5. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Lydia propose to change her feelings of worthlessness?

6. Explain the following quote: “And again George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room. A miracle of efficiency selling for an absurdly low price. Every home should have one.”

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

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

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

10. How do Wendy and Peter tell their parents that they will be late for dinner?

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