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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the dimensions of the nursery?
(a) 40 feet across X 40 feet long X 30 feet high
(b) 40 feet across X 40 feet long X 10 feet high
(c) 20 feet across X 40 feet long X 30 feet high
(d) 10 feet across X 15 feet long X 12 feet high

2. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?
(a) Tea
(b) Ketchup
(c) French fries
(d) Dinner plates

3. What do George and Lydia notice about the screams?
(a) They don’t sound human
(b) They sound really close
(c) They sound familiar
(d) They sound really far away

4. What is George going to do with the nursery?
(a) He is going to secretly take out the machine and pretend like he doesn’t know what is wrong
(b) Nothing; he doesn’t think that anything is wrong with the nursery
(c) Keep it locked until he can figure out what is going on and why it is the veldt, and why his walled was in there
(d) Nothing; he doesn’t want to deal with the children throwing a tantrum

5. What does Dr. McClean state as one of the original uses of the nursery?
(a) So that we could study patterns left on the walls by the child’s mind, study at our leisure and help the child
(b) To watch the children so that the adults may live their lives
(c) To fill their minds with knowledge of the world
(d) To entertain the children

Short Answer Questions

1. When George walks into the nursery with the children, what is there?

2. Who are they going to have come look at Africa (the nursery) the following morning?

3. What do the beds “try” to do?

4. What is flying overhead?

5. What is Lydia’s initial solution?

(see the answer key)

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