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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have Peter and Wendy had for dinner at the carnival?
(a) Hot dogs and strawberry ice cream
(b) Bread and butter
(c) They have had protein smoothies
(d) They have not had dinner yet

2. Who says, “I don’t want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do”?
(a) Peter
(b) George
(c) Wendy
(d) Lydia

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) Personification
(c) A metaphor
(d) A simile

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

5. What is George going to do with the nursery?
(a) Nothing; he doesn’t think that anything is wrong with the nursery
(b) Nothing; he doesn’t want to deal with the children throwing a tantrum
(c) Keep it locked until he can figure out what is going on and why it is the veldt, and why his walled was in there
(d) He is going to secretly take out the machine and pretend like he doesn’t know what is wrong

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lydia hear that George does not?

2. When Lydia sits down in the chair, what does it do?

3. Who does the wife want the husband to call, and for what reason?

4. Who initially suggests that the family take a vacation and “shut the house off”?

5. What does Dr.McClean say that George has become?

(see the answer key)

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