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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 Dr. McClean think that the room has become more important than?
(a) The children’s real friends
(b) The children’s attendance at school
(c) The children’s real mother and father
(d) The children’s relationship with each other

2. What form of writing is The Veldt?
(a) A poem
(b) A novel
(c) A short story
(d) A novella

3. Who thinks Wendy changed the nursery from a veldt to a forest?
(a) Ruby
(b) Both George and Lydia
(c) David
(d) Peter

4. What happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?
(a) George finds a bloody tie tied around the doorknob
(b) Lydia trips and sprains her ankle
(c) An alarms sounds
(d) They cannot because the door is locked

5. Who says: “My God we need a breath of fresh air”?
(a) Peter
(b) Lydia
(c) George
(d) Wendy

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the nursery transform into as George and Lydia are inspecting it?

2. How long will it take to make “good children out of bad”?

3. The following morning, what does Peter ask his father?

4. What turns on and off as they walk through the house?

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

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