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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How old are the children?
2. What does Dr.McClean suggest George do to the nursery?
3. Why do the parents think the children have been acting funny?
4. What is on the wallet?
5. What has just been eating in the nursery?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do they see when they all walk into the nursery together so that George can prove Africa is in there?
2. How long does he think the children have been conjuring Africa? What had he noticed, but not paid attention to?
3. How is dinner served to George and Lydia?
4. Why does George cave and turn the nursery on for just “one more minute”?
5. What does Lydia believe the lions have just been doing? How does she know this?
6. How do Wendy and Peter react when George asks them about Africa?
7. Why aren’t Wendy and Peter at dinner?
8. Where do George and Lydia realize they’ve heard the screams before?
9. What do the vultures in the African veldt scene indicate?
10. How do the children react when George and David McClean shut the nursery off?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Foreshadowing is used in almost all works of fiction.
What is foreshadowing? Identify three instances of foreshadowing in The Veldt and what they foreshadow? How does foreshadowing contribute to a story's suspense? Are there any incidences that you thought foreshadows a future event, but it does not do so?
Essay Topic 2
Bradbury uses the names Peter and Wendy as an allusion to the characters in the story of Peter Pan.
What is suggested by Bradbury’s use of the names? How are similar and dissimilar to the characters of Peter Pan are they? Is Bradbury being ironic? If so, how?
Essay Topic 3
Examine the final scene in The Veldt. David McClean walks into the nursery where the children are sitting having a picnic lunch watching the lions feed.
What are the lions eating? Why is their behavior disturbing? What is significant about Wendy offering Dr.McClean a cup of tea? What does their behavior suggest about this society, or future society?
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