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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says: “Nothing likes to die—even a room”?
(a) George Hadley
(b) Peter Hadley
(c) David McCLean
(d) Lydia Hadley

2. What do they see when they look to the sky?
(a) Vultures
(b) Blue
(c) Storm clouds
(d) Macaws

3. What is on the wallet?
(a) A green goo that is undecipherable
(b) Nothing; it is clean
(c) Bits of grass, water and mud
(d) Drops of saliva, chew marks, and smears of blood

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

5. What is George going to do with the nursery?
(a) Keep it locked until he can figure out what is going on and why it is the veldt, and why his walled was in there
(b) He is going to secretly take out the machine and pretend like he doesn’t know what is wrong
(c) Nothing; he doesn’t want to deal with the children throwing a tantrum
(d) Nothing; he doesn’t think that anything is wrong with the nursery

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lydia sits down in the chair, what does it do?

2. How does the nursery create scenes?

3. Who comes home late smelling like ozone?

4. How do they get to their bedrooms?

5. When was The Veldt published?

(see the answer key)

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