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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Personification
(b) A metaphor
(c) A simile
(d) Alliteration

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

3. What is the wife’s name?
(a) Rachel
(b) Lois
(c) Wendy
(d) Lydia

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

5. Who are they going to have come look at Africa (the nursery) the following morning?
(a) Ray Bradbury
(b) George Hadley
(c) Gloria Steinem
(d) David McLean

Short Answer Questions

1. From whose perspective is the story told?

2. What is on the wallet?

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

4. What is flying overhead?

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

(see the answer key)

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