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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lydia hear that George does not?
(a) Their children calling them
(b) Songbirds
(c) Classical music
(d) A scream

2. When George and David enter the nursery, what are the lions doing?
(a) Pacing
(b) Feeding
(c) Hunting
(d) Sleeping

3. Who says: “Nothing likes to die—even a room”?
(a) George Hadley
(b) Lydia Hadley
(c) Peter Hadley
(d) David McCLean

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

5. The following morning, what does Peter ask his father?
(a) If they are going to go on a family vacation this year
(b) If they are going to look up the nursery for good
(c) If he can drink coffee
(d) If he and Wendy can take a rocket to New York

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the family’s surname?

2. What has happened to the parents at the end of the story?

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

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

5. What is a major theme of The Veldt?

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