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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How far away are they when the nursery lights come on?
(a) Five feet
(b) They turn on at the threshold
(c) Ten feet
(d) One foot

4. Who initially believes that the nursery walls are too real?
(a) Peter
(b) Wendy
(c) Lydia
(d) George

5. What does Dr. McClean state as one of the original uses of the nursery?
(a) So that we could study patterns left on the walls by the child’s mind, study at our leisure and help the child
(b) To entertain the children
(c) To watch the children so that the adults may live their lives
(d) To fill their minds with knowledge of the world

Short Answer Questions

1. What is David McClean?

2. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?

3. How old are the children?

4. What does George offer David McClean?

5. What genre is The Veldt?

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