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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the nursery create scenes?
(a) It creates it telepathically based on what the children are thinking
(b) They are interactive television programs
(c) They are images taken with a camera and then uploaded onto the screens
(d) The scenes are based on books that the children read

3. What is a major theme of The Veldt?
(a) Technology replacing human connection
(b) War between two families
(c) Living in poverty
(d) Finding true love

4. What does Dr. McClean state as one of the original uses of the nursery?
(a) So that we could study patterns left on the walls by the child’s mind, study at our leisure and help the child
(b) To fill their minds with knowledge of the world
(c) To entertain the children
(d) To watch the children so that the adults may live their lives

5. What does Lydia hear that George does not?
(a) Classical music
(b) Their children calling them
(c) A scream
(d) Songbirds

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Veldt?

2. How much did they pay for their home?

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

4. Why does George laugh at Lydia?

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

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