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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?
(a) French fries
(b) Dinner plates
(c) Ketchup
(d) Tea

3. Who initially suggests that the family take a vacation and “shut the house off”?
(a) Wendy
(b) Lydia
(c) Max
(d) George

4. What does George try to conjure to get rid of the veldt?
(a) His favorite childhood fishing spot
(b) Rima and the jungle
(c) Aladdin and his lamp
(d) The prairie grasses of the Great Plains

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did the nursery cost in comparison to the rest of the house?

2. What do George and Lydia notice about the screams?

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

4. What is the problem that Lydia is beginning to feel with the house?

5. How do they get to their bedrooms?

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