View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 fill their minds with knowledge of the world
(d) To watch the children so that the adults may live their lives

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

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

4. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?
(a) Lydia’s heart
(b) The door to the nursery
(c) The dining room table
(d) The entire house

5. Who threatens George?
(a) David
(b) Peter
(c) The nursery
(d) Wendy

Short Answer Questions

1. What is flying overhead?

2. Why do the parents think the children have been acting funny?

3. What does the wife want the husband to take a look at?

4. Who says: “Nothing likes to die—even a room”?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 232 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample