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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has just been eating in the nursery?
(a) Lions
(b) No one and nothing has been eating in the nursery. The parents don’t allow it.
(c) Rabbits
(d) Their children

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

3. Who does the wife want the husband to call, and for what reason?
(a) A contractor to stop the leaking roof
(b) A furnace repairman to fix the heat
(c) A psychologist to take a look at the nursery
(d) A plumber to look at the clogged bathtub

4. How do the children tell their parents that they won’t be home for dinner?
(a) They transported an image of themselves
(b) They “televised” home to say they’d be late
(c) They called on a cellular phone
(d) They just come home late

5. Where are the lions going?
(a) To eat
(b) To hunt
(c) To the watering hole
(d) To bed down for night time

Short Answer Questions

1. Dinner is being prepared for a family of ________.

2. What does George try to conjure to get rid of the veldt?

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

4. What does Dr. McClean suggest George and Lydia do to change the path they’re on?

5. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?

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