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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the dimensions of the nursery?
(a) 20 feet across X 40 feet long X 30 feet high
(b) 40 feet across X 40 feet long X 30 feet high
(c) 40 feet across X 40 feet long X 10 feet high
(d) 10 feet across X 15 feet long X 12 feet high

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

3. What does Dr. McClean say children prefer?
(a) Happiness
(b) Destruction
(c) Scrooges
(d) Santas

4. What do they see when they look to the sky?
(a) Blue
(b) Storm clouds
(c) Vultures
(d) Macaws

5. What turns on and off as they walk through the house?
(a) Music
(b) The heat
(c) Television walls
(d) The lights

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does George laugh at Lydia?

2. What is the family’s surname?

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

4. What does Dr.McClean find on the floor?

5. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?

(see the answer key)

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