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

2. What has the room become a channel for?
(a) Destructive thoughts
(b) Education
(c) Devastation
(d) Dreams

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

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

5. Complete the sentence: “…the walls began to ________ and recede into __________distance…”?
(a) Argue / dark
(b) Shimmer / blinding
(c) Talk / far
(d) Purr / crystalline

Short Answer Questions

1. From whose perspective is the story told?

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

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

4. What is David McClean?

5. Who does George think is spoiled?

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