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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) Personification
(c) A simile
(d) Alliteration

2. What has happened to the parents at the end of the story?
(a) George and Lydia have been killed by lions by the will of their children
(b) Nothing happens, because despite Dr.McClean’s suggestions no changes are made
(c) George and Lydia pack up their children and leave the house forever
(d) The parents take the family on a vacation to Iowa

3. Who calls George and Lydia into the nursery?
(a) The nursery calls them
(b) David McClean
(c) Max and Ruby
(d) Peter and Wendy

4. How does the nursery create scenes?
(a) It creates it telepathically based on what the children are thinking
(b) They are images taken with a camera and then uploaded onto the screens
(c) They are interactive television programs
(d) The scenes are based on books that the children read

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was The Veldt published?

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

3. What do George and Lydia hear while they are lying in bed?

4. Who says, “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was before”?

5. What is the wife’s name?

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