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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the beds “try” to do?
(a) Wake them up
(b) Rock Lydia and George to sleep
(c) Tell them that they didn’t hear anything
(d) Nothing; they are just beds

2. Why does Lydia bolt and run?
(a) Someone is ringing the front doorbell
(b) George tells her to
(c) The lions are coming at them
(d) She is suddenly too hot and very thirsty

3. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?
(a) Peter
(b) David
(c) George
(d) Lydia

4. When was The Veldt published?
(a) 1960
(b) 1950
(c) 1970
(d) 1980

5. What does the wife want the husband to take a look at?
(a) The nursery
(b) The stove
(c) The furnace
(d) The front door

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lydia hear that George does not?

2. What has the room become a channel for?

3. How do they get to their bedrooms?

4. What is described as, “It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon”?

5. Who says the following: “But nothing’s too good for our children”?

(see the answer key)

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