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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has the African veldt been in the nursery?
(a) One week
(b) About two weeks
(c) Just this morning
(d) A little over a month

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

3. What is their home called?
(a) An Easylife Home
(b) A Healthylife home
(c) A Joyfullife Home
(d) A Happylife Home

4. Who says the following: “But nothing’s too good for our children”?
(a) George
(b) Peter
(c) Lydia
(d) David

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

6. What are the children’s names?
(a) Liza, Ray, Flora
(b) Penelope
(c) Peter and Wendy
(d) Ruby and Max

7. What is a major theme of The Veldt?
(a) Technology replacing human connection
(b) Living in poverty
(c) Finding true love
(d) War between two families

8. This is an example of what type of figurative language: “…and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry…”?
(a) A metaphor
(b) A simile
(c) Personification
(d) Alliteration

9. What does Dr.McClean find on the floor?
(a) Dirty dishes
(b) A tea cup
(c) A bloodied scarf
(d) A wallet

10. Why does Lydia bolt and run?
(a) George tells her to
(b) Someone is ringing the front doorbell
(c) The lions are coming at them
(d) She is suddenly too hot and very thirsty

11. What is the family’s surname?
(a) Bradbury
(b) McClean
(c) Hadley
(d) Rosemont

12. What is George going to do with the nursery?
(a) Nothing; he doesn’t think that anything is wrong with the nursery
(b) Nothing; he doesn’t want to deal with the children throwing a tantrum
(c) He is going to secretly take out the machine and pretend like he doesn’t know what is wrong
(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

13. What does Dr.McClean suggest George do to the nursery?
(a) Have the room torn down
(b) Pre-program it
(c) He does not suggest he do anything with the nursery
(d) Lock it up

14. How much did they pay for their home?
(a) $30,000
(b) $60,000
(c) $45,000
(d) $15,000

15. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?
(a) The entire house
(b) Lydia’s heart
(c) The dining room table
(d) The door to the nursery

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?

4. Who initially suggests that the family take a vacation and “shut the house off”?

5. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?

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