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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What form of writing is The Veldt?
(a) A novel
(b) A novella
(c) A poem
(d) A short story

2. Who does the wife want the husband to call, and for what reason?
(a) A plumber to look at the clogged bathtub
(b) A contractor to stop the leaking roof
(c) A psychologist to take a look at the nursery
(d) A furnace repairman to fix the heat

3. What is the nursery a reflection of?
(a) The bad things in society
(b) Books the children read
(c) The children’s psyches
(d) The good things in society

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

5. When Lydia sits down in the chair, what does it do?
(a) Puts a blanket on her
(b) It rocks and comforts her
(c) Offers her a cup of coffee
(d) It does nothing; it is a chair

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children are there in the family?

2. What is described as, “It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon”?

3. What do they see when they look to the sky?

4. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?

5. What is the wife’s name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lydia want George to lock up the nursery?

2. Why does George laugh at Lydia once she runs out of the nursery?

3. Before the African veldt, what did the children conjure in the nursery?

4. What does George find of his in the corner where the lions where feeding?

5. Why do George and Lydia suppose that they cannot change the nursery?

6. How does the house take care of them?

7. Where do George and Lydia realize they’ve heard the screams before?

8. Explain how the nursery reflects the children’s psyches.

9. Why does Lydia “bolt and run”?

10. George threatens to turn the entire house off for a month, how does Peter react?

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