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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?
(a) The dining room table
(b) Lydia’s heart
(c) The door to the nursery
(d) The entire house

2. What does Lydia hear that George does not?
(a) A scream
(b) Classical music
(c) Songbirds
(d) Their children calling them

3. Why does George laugh at Lydia?
(a) Because she is afraid of the nursery
(b) Because she trips on her way out of the nursery
(c) Because she makes a joke
(d) Because her skin is so far she is burned by the fake sun in the nursery

4. What do George and Lydia think is broken?
(a) The stove
(b) The dining room table
(c) The front door
(d) The nursery machinery

5. To whom does the item belong?
(a) George
(b) Lydia
(c) Wendy
(d) Peter

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What point of view is The Veldt told from?

3. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?

4. From whose perspective is the story told?

5. Why do the parents think the children have been acting funny?

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