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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do George and Lydia hear while they are lying in bed?
(a) Their children whispering
(b) The front door opening and closing
(c) Lions roaring
(d) Two screams

2. What does Dr.McClean say that George has become?
(a) An angel
(b) A troll
(c) A scrooge
(d) A santa

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

4. Where does the family plan on going for vacation?
(a) To Florida
(b) To Iowa
(c) To Hawaii
(d) To Oklahoma

5. What does George try to conjure to get rid of the veldt?
(a) The prairie grasses of the Great Plains
(b) His favorite childhood fishing spot
(c) Rima and the jungle
(d) Aladdin and his lamp

6. What is the problem that Lydia is beginning to feel with the house?
(a) That it is too cold with all of the machines
(b) She feels that the house is too expensive
(c) she and George are becoming unnecessary
(d) That it no longer does what she expects it to

7. What does Dr. McClean say children prefer?
(a) Santas
(b) Happiness
(c) Destruction
(d) Scrooges

8. What is found on the floor of the nursery?
(a) An old wallet of George’s
(b) Cigarettes
(c) Wendy’s blankie
(d) Dirty dishes

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

10. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?
(a) They scream and cry, and throw a tantrum
(b) They threaten their parents with violence
(c) They act indifferent, as if they don’t care
(d) They try to blackmail their parents into turning it back on

11. What is flying overhead?
(a) Vultures
(b) Mary Poppins
(c) Ducks
(d) Pterodactyls

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

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

14. What is the husband’s name?
(a) Randall
(b) George
(c) Leonard
(d) David

15. What does Dr. McClean think that the room has become more important than?
(a) The children’s relationship with each other
(b) The children’s attendance at school
(c) The children’s real friends
(d) The children’s real mother and father

Short Answer Questions

1. 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…”?

2. Where are the lions going?

3. What has happened to the parents at the end of the story?

4. When was The Veldt published?

5. Who threatens George?

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