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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What are the lions doing when Dr. McClean walks in?
(a) They are grooming each other
(b) They are sleeping
(c) They are finishing feeding and walking to the waterhole
(d) They are hunting

4. What do George and Lydia notice about the screams?
(a) They sound familiar
(b) They don’t sound human
(c) They sound really far away
(d) They sound really close

5. Who are they going to have come look at Africa (the nursery) the following morning?
(a) Ray Bradbury
(b) Gloria Steinem
(c) George Hadley
(d) David McLean

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says the following: “But I thought that’s why we bought this house, so we wouldn’t have to do anything?”

2. What does Lydia hear that George does not?

3. What doesn’t Dr. McClean think “feels good”?

4. What does the nursery transform into as George and Lydia are inspecting it?

5. What does Wendy offer Dr.McClean?

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