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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This is an example of what type of figurative language: “…and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry…”?
(a) A metaphor
(b) Alliteration
(c) A simile
(d) Personification

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

3. How long will it take to make “good children out of bad”?
(a) It is an impossible task
(b) Five years
(c) A year
(d) It is not necessary because Dr.McClean thinks that they are great as they are

4. What does Dr. McClean suggest George and Lydia do to change the path they’re on?
(a) Burn the house down
(b) Turn everything off. Start new
(c) Nothing. Your life is a like a dream
(d) Nothing. You’re on the right path

5. What is George going to do with the nursery?
(a) Keep it locked until he can figure out what is going on and why it is the veldt, and why his walled was in there
(b) He is going to secretly take out the machine and pretend like he doesn’t know what is wrong
(c) Nothing; he doesn’t think that anything is wrong with the nursery
(d) Nothing; he doesn’t want to deal with the children throwing a tantrum

Short Answer Questions

1. What are their bedrooms called?

2. Who does the wife want the husband to call, and for what reason?

3. When George and David enter the nursery, what are the lions doing?

4. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?

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

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