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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 Dr. McClean think that the room has become more important than?
(a) The children’s real mother and father
(b) The children’s attendance at school
(c) The children’s real friends
(d) The children’s relationship with each other

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

3. What does the found item smell like?
(a) Old cheese and meat
(b) Rain and ferns
(c) Cigarette smoke
(d) Hot grass and lion

4. What do the beds “try” to do?
(a) Wake them up
(b) Tell them that they didn’t hear anything
(c) Nothing; they are just beds
(d) Rock Lydia and George to sleep

5. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?
(a) Eating lunch in what looks like an open glade in the nursery
(b) Playing video games on the wall TVs in the living room
(c) Napping in their beds
(d) Having a formal dinner in the dinging room

Short Answer Questions

1. What is their home called?

2. How does the nursery create scenes?

3. 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…”?

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

5. What does Dr. McClean state as one of the original uses of the nursery?

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