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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When George walks into the nursery with the children, what is there?
(a) The Grand Canyon
(b) Rima, and a lovely lush green forest
(c) The African veldt
(d) Nothing; the walls are blank

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

3. Where do George and Lydia believe Wendy and Peter are?
(a) In the nursery
(b) At their robot friend’s house
(c) At school
(d) At a plastic carnival across town

4. Who threatens George?
(a) Peter
(b) David
(c) Wendy
(d) The nursery

5. The following morning, what does Peter ask his father?
(a) If he and Wendy can take a rocket to New York
(b) If they are going to go on a family vacation this year
(c) If they are going to look up the nursery for good
(d) If he can drink coffee

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a major theme of The Veldt?

2. What are their bedrooms called?

3. How do the children tell their parents that they won’t be home for dinner?

4. When George and David enter the nursery, what are the lions doing?

5. Who comes home late smelling like ozone?

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