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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word is used to describe the hallway?
(a) Soundproofed
(b) Suffocating
(c) Long
(d) Narrow

2. How far away are they when the nursery lights come on?
(a) One foot
(b) Five feet
(c) Ten feet
(d) They turn on at the threshold

3. What is the nursery a reflection of?
(a) The bad things in society
(b) The good things in society
(c) Books the children read
(d) The children’s psyches

4. What does Dr. McClean think that the room has become more important than?
(a) The children’s attendance at school
(b) The children’s relationship with each other
(c) The children’s real mother and father
(d) The children’s real friends

5. Who says, “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was before”?
(a) The husband
(b) The psychologist
(c) Peter Hadley
(d) The wife

Short Answer Questions

1. What have Peter and Wendy had for dinner at the carnival?

2. Why does George laugh at Lydia?

3. What are their bedrooms called?

4. What do the beds “try” to do?

5. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?

(see the answer key)

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