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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has the African veldt been in the nursery?
(a) One week
(b) A little over a month
(c) About two weeks
(d) Just this morning

2. Where do George and Lydia believe Wendy and Peter are?
(a) At a plastic carnival across town
(b) At their robot friend’s house
(c) At school
(d) In the nursery

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

4. How does the nursery create scenes?
(a) It creates it telepathically based on what the children are thinking
(b) They are images taken with a camera and then uploaded onto the screens
(c) They are interactive television programs
(d) The scenes are based on books that the children read

5. What are the children’s names?
(a) Ruby and Max
(b) Penelope
(c) Peter and Wendy
(d) Liza, Ray, Flora

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a major theme of The Veldt?

2. What does Peter admit to?

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

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

5. Complete the sentence: “…the walls began to ________ and recede into __________distance…”?

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