Choose the best answer for each question. At the end of the quiz, your score will appear here. Note: this quiz is based on the original story. Some of the questions and answers may not be applicable to our simplified story.
At the beginning of the story, why did Lydia ask George to call a psychologist to look at the nursery?
Animals were always chasing her out.
Something about it didn't seem right.
Someone inside it was calling for help.
We are told that the complete house cost "$30,000 installed" and that the nursery cost "half again as much as the rest of the house". How much did the nursery cost?
$15,000.
$10,000.
$30,000.
What shocked George and Lydia after they ran out of the nursery?
How close they were to being eaten.
How they both reacted very differently.
The fact that the children weren't there.
What was Lydia's major problem with their HappyLife Home?
She didn't like the song the stove always hummed.
She thought it was taking over her role as mother.
George seemed to be getting more and more nervous.
What surprised George when he went inside the nusey alone?
Lydia was like a framed picture, eating her dinner abstractedly.
The nursery could read the the children's minds and fill their every wish.
He could not get the nursey to move away from the African veldt.
What did David McLean think when he saw the nursery?
There was something worrying about what was happening.
There must be some kind of flaw in the machinery.
He needed to spend time studying the patterns on the walls.
What did David McLean say they must do?
Change the nursery story away from the African veldt.
Close the nursery and have the children come to see him for help.
Take the cildren to New York as they had promised earlier.
Why did George agree to turn on the nursery again after he had turned off all the machines?
So that Lydia and the children would stop complaining.
So that the children could say goodbye to the lions.
Because the children wanted to have a picnic on the veldt.
Why did Peter and Wendy call out for George and Lydia to come quickly?
The lions were chasing them around the room.
The lions had eaten all of the other animals.
They wanted to lock them inside the nursery.
In the story George mentioned the following English idiom: "Children are carpets, they should be stepped on sometimes." What does this mean?
Children sometimes get dirty and need to be kept clean.
Children should not be given everything they want.
Children must always listen to what their parents say.