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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, “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was before”?
(a) The husband
(b) The wife
(c) The psychologist
(d) Peter Hadley

2. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?
(a) Tea
(b) Ketchup
(c) Dinner plates
(d) French fries

3. What is supposed to help the children “work off their neuroses in a healthful way”?
(a) Their designated nap times
(b) Their special school
(c) Their robot friends
(d) The nursery

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

5. What is George going to do with the nursery?
(a) Nothing; he doesn’t want to deal with the children throwing a tantrum
(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 think that anything is wrong with the nursery
(d) 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What turns on and off as they walk through the house?

2. What does Wendy offer Dr.McClean?

3. What is the problem that Lydia is beginning to feel with the house?

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

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

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