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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Veldt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long will it take to make “good children out of bad”?
(a) It is an impossible task
(b) A year
(c) Five years
(d) It is not necessary because Dr.McClean thinks that they are great as they are

2. What is the nursery a reflection of?
(a) Books the children read
(b) The good things in society
(c) The bad things in society
(d) The children’s psyches

3. Where do George and Lydia believe Wendy and Peter are?
(a) At their robot friend’s house
(b) In the nursery
(c) At school
(d) At a plastic carnival across town

4. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?
(a) Napping in their beds
(b) Eating lunch in what looks like an open glade in the nursery
(c) Having a formal dinner in the dinging room
(d) Playing video games on the wall TVs in the living room

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) Nothing happens, because despite Dr.McClean’s suggestions no changes are made
(d) George and Lydia pack up their children and leave the house forever

Short Answer Questions

1. How far away are they when the nursery lights come on?

2. What is flying overhead?

3. Who says: “Nothing likes to die—even a room”?

4. What has the room become a channel for?

5. The following morning, what does Peter ask his father?

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