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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the parents think the children have been acting funny?
(a) They have cut back on the children’s allowance
(b) The children no longer talk to them
(c) The children are angry with them for working so much
(d) They would not let the children take a rocket to New York

2. What do George and Lydia hear while they are lying in bed?
(a) Their children whispering
(b) Two screams
(c) Lions roaring
(d) The front door opening and closing

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

4. What is a major theme of The Veldt?
(a) War between two families
(b) Technology replacing human connection
(c) Finding true love
(d) Living in poverty

5. What is on the wallet?
(a) A green goo that is undecipherable
(b) Bits of grass, water and mud
(c) Drops of saliva, chew marks, and smears of blood
(d) Nothing; it is clean

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the item belong?

2. What does Dr.McClean say that George has become?

3. What does the found item smell like?

4. What does George offer David McClean?

5. Who says the following: “But nothing’s too good for our children”?

(see the answer key)

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