The Veldt Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 76 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Veldt Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 76 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. To whom does the item belong?

2. What are the lions doing when Dr. McClean walks in?

3. What is supposed to help the children “work off their neuroses in a healthful way”?

4. Who initially believes that the nursery walls are too real?

5. What do George and Lydia think is broken?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why hadn’t George paid any attention to the situation before?

5. How does Dr. McClean say the nursery feels?

6. What does Lydia believe the lions have just been doing? How does she know this?

7. Explain the following quote: “Now we’re really going to start living. Instead of being handled and massaged, we’re going to live.”

8. Why does George laugh at Lydia once she runs out of the nursery?

9. What does Lydia notice about George as well?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lydia mentions that she feels that she has too much time and too little to do, and that she thinks too much. What is her antidote to her dilemma?

Why is George surprised by what she wants to do? What observations has she noticed about him? And what does she think it suggests?

Essay Topic 2

Which secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Stories can be plot or character driven, or even both with a balance of the two.

What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven or action driven? Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why? Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character are developed to the same degree? Why or why not? Explain your response.

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