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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 the wife want the husband to take a look at?
(a) The front door
(b) The furnace
(c) The stove
(d) The nursery

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

3. What is the problem that Lydia is beginning to feel with the house?
(a) she and George are becoming unnecessary
(b) She feels that the house is too expensive
(c) That it no longer does what she expects it to
(d) That it is too cold with all of the machines

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

5. What happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?
(a) An alarms sounds
(b) They cannot because the door is locked
(c) Lydia trips and sprains her ankle
(d) George finds a bloody tie tied around the doorknob

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the wife’s name?

2. How does the nursery create scenes?

3. What does Dr. McClean say children prefer?

4. The following morning, what does Peter ask his father?

5. Who initially believes that the nursery walls are too real?

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