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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) Nothing; they are just beds
(b) Tell them that they didn’t hear anything
(c) Wake them up
(d) Rock Lydia and George to sleep

2. How many children are there in the family?
(a) One
(b) Four
(c) Three
(d) Two

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

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

5. What has just been eating in the nursery?
(a) Their children
(b) No one and nothing has been eating in the nursery. The parents don’t allow it.
(c) Lions
(d) Rabbits

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the wife’s name?

2. How long has the African veldt been in the nursery?

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

4. What is found on the floor of the nursery?

5. What doesn’t Dr. McClean think “feels good”?

(see the answer key)

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