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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 David McClean?
(a) A computer repairman
(b) A psychologist
(c) A physician
(d) A machinist

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

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

4. What does Peter admit to?
(a) Re-programming the house systems
(b) Conjuring up Africa
(c) Sneaking out of the house
(d) Secretly taking the trip to New York

5. What are the lions doing when Dr. McClean walks in?
(a) They are sleeping
(b) They are grooming each other
(c) They are hunting
(d) They are finishing feeding and walking to the waterhole

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. McClean suggest George and Lydia do to change the path they’re on?

2. When was The Veldt published?

3. 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…”?

4. What has the room become a channel for?

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

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