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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 husband’s name?
(a) Leonard
(b) George
(c) David
(d) Randall

2. How do they get to their bedrooms?
(a) In an air closet that sucks them up to their sleeping chambers
(b) Through a wall in the nursery
(c) By telepathically transporting
(d) By taking the stairs

3. Why does Lydia bolt and run?
(a) George tells her to
(b) She is suddenly too hot and very thirsty
(c) The lions are coming at them
(d) Someone is ringing the front doorbell

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

5. How many children are there in the family?
(a) Two
(b) One
(c) Four
(d) Three

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to the parents at the end of the story?

2. What is supposed to help the children “work off their neuroses in a healthful way”?

3. What happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?

4. Where are the lions going?

5. What is the nursery a reflection of?

(see the answer key)

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