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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From whose perspective is the story told?
(a) Peter Hadley’s
(b) David McClean’s
(c) Lydia Hadley’s
(d) George Hadley’s

3. 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…”?
(a) Alliteration
(b) A metaphor
(c) A simile
(d) Personification

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

5. What happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?
(a) Lydia trips and sprains her ankle
(b) An alarms sounds
(c) George finds a bloody tie tied around the doorknob
(d) They cannot because the door is locked

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the children’s names?

2. What do George and Lydia hear while they are lying in bed?

3. What does Dr.McClean suggest George do to the nursery?

4. Who calls George and Lydia into the nursery?

5. What is George going to do with the nursery?

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