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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. Who threatens George?

2. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?

3. What form of writing is The Veldt?

4. What is “busy humming it to itself” in the opening paragraphs?

5. What are the children’s names?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does George hear just as he enters the nursery (for the second time in the story)?

2. Why does George feel perspiration on his brown when he is in the nursery?

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

4. How does Peter accidentally confess that they have, in fact, been conjuring Africa?

5. In the past, what has David McClean noticed about the nursery?

6. How does Peter threaten his father?

7. How does the nursery change once George and Lydia enter?

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

9. Why is George hesitant to lock up the nursery? What does he fear?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in The Veldt. Trace and analyze one major theme of The Veldt. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action? Use examples from The Veldt to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Often readers identify with the protagonist, by putting themselves in the character’s situation and wondering what they would do.

Do you think one of the values of literature is to serve as a reflection of oneself? Why or why not? Socrates said, "Know thyself." How can reading a short story such at The Veldt help a reader to know him/herself? Do you find yourself reflecting on your own character and relationships to others and to technology when reading The Veldt? Why or why not? Discuss one character with whom you identify and why you feel that way. Use examples from The Veldt and your own life to support your answer.

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