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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 children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?
(a) Playing video games on the wall TVs in the living room
(b) Eating lunch in what looks like an open glade in the nursery
(c) Having a formal dinner in the dinging room
(d) Napping in their beds

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

3. What does George try to conjure to get rid of the veldt?
(a) The prairie grasses of the Great Plains
(b) Rima and the jungle
(c) Aladdin and his lamp
(d) His favorite childhood fishing spot

4. What point of view is The Veldt told from?
(a) Third-person omniscient
(b) Second person
(c) Third-person limited
(d) First person

5. Who is the author of The Veldt?
(a) Vladimir Nabokov
(b) Daniel Quinn
(c) Ray Bradbury
(d) Raymond Carver

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does George laugh at Lydia?

2. What does George offer David McClean?

3. What does Dr.McClean find on the floor?

4. What is the family’s surname?

5. What do George and Lydia notice about the screams?

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