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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is George going to do with the nursery?
2. What do George and Lydia hear while they are lying in bed?
3. Who says the following: “But I thought that’s why we bought this house, so we wouldn’t have to do anything?”
4. What does Peter admit to?
5. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Peter accidentally confess that they have, in fact, been conjuring Africa?
2. Why does George feel perspiration on his brown when he is in the nursery?
3. What does David McClean find on the floor of the nursery?
4. How does Lydia propose to change her feelings of worthlessness?
5. Why does Lydia want George to look at the nursery?
6. What does George hear just as he enters the nursery (for the second time in the story)?
7. 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.”
8. Explain how the nursery conjures the African veldt.
9. How do the children react when George and David McClean shut the nursery off?
10. Explain the following quote: “Now we’re really going to start living. Instead of being handled and massaged, we’re going to live.”
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine the final scene in The Veldt. David McClean walks into the nursery where the children are sitting having a picnic lunch watching the lions feed.
What are the lions eating? Why is their behavior disturbing? What is significant about Wendy offering Dr.McClean a cup of tea? What does their behavior suggest about this society, or future society?
Essay Topic 2
Bradbury uses the names Peter and Wendy as an allusion to the characters in the story of Peter Pan.
What is suggested by Bradbury’s use of the names? How are similar and dissimilar to the characters of Peter Pan are they? Is Bradbury being ironic? If so, how?
Essay Topic 3
Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels.
Compare and contrast the characters of George and Lydia. How do they react differently to the children? To the nursery? How are their reactions similar? How do they view their lives as a family? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples.?
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