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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is supposed to help the children “work off their neuroses in a healthful way”?
(a) The nursery
(b) Their robot friends
(c) Their designated nap times
(d) Their special school

2. Who initially suggests that the family take a vacation and “shut the house off”?
(a) Lydia
(b) George
(c) Wendy
(d) Max

3. What does Dr. McClean say children prefer?
(a) Happiness
(b) Scrooges
(c) Santas
(d) Destruction

4. Who thinks Wendy changed the nursery from a veldt to a forest?
(a) Ruby
(b) Both George and Lydia
(c) Peter
(d) David

5. What does Dr.McClean find on the floor?
(a) A tea cup
(b) A wallet
(c) Dirty dishes
(d) A bloodied scarf

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes home late smelling like ozone?

2. What form of writing is The Veldt?

3. Who says: “My God we need a breath of fresh air”?

4. What has the room become a channel for?

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

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