View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the wife want the husband to take a look at?
(a) The front door
(b) The stove
(c) The nursery
(d) The furnace

2. Who comes home late smelling like ozone?
(a) David
(b) Peter and Wendy
(c) George and Lydia
(d) Max and Ruby

3. How much did the nursery cost in comparison to the rest of the house?
(a) Thrice as much
(b) One third as much
(c) Twice as much
(d) One-half as much

4. What concerns George?
(a) George is concerned that Lydia doesn’t have enough to do in the house
(b) George is concerned that they don’t have enough money to pay their bills
(c) George is concerned that his children don’t come home for dinner
(d) George is concerned that the lions were killing and eating, which means that for this to happen his children had thought of death

5. What turns on and off as they walk through the house?
(a) The lights
(b) Television walls
(c) Music
(d) The heat

Short Answer Questions

1. What have Peter and Wendy had for dinner at the carnival?

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

3. What genre is The Veldt?

4. What are the lions doing when Dr. McClean walks in?

5. What are their bedrooms called?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 258 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample