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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Veldt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the beds “try” to do?
(a) Rock Lydia and George to sleep
(b) Wake them up
(c) Nothing; they are just beds
(d) Tell them that they didn’t hear anything

2. What does the nursery transform into as George and Lydia are inspecting it?
(a) The Grand Canyon
(b) A tropical jungle
(c) An African veldt
(d) The Sahara Desert

3. What does Dr. McClean state as one of the original uses of the nursery?
(a) To watch the children so that the adults may live their lives
(b) To fill their minds with knowledge of the world
(c) So that we could study patterns left on the walls by the child’s mind, study at our leisure and help the child
(d) To entertain the children

4. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?
(a) David
(b) Lydia
(c) Peter
(d) George

5. What does the found item smell like?
(a) Old cheese and meat
(b) Hot grass and lion
(c) Cigarette smoke
(d) Rain and ferns

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children are there in the family?

2. What does Dr.McClean find on the floor?

3. What is David McClean?

4. Who says, “I don’t want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do”?

5. How old are the children?

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