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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the parents think the children have been acting funny?
(a) The children no longer talk to them
(b) They have cut back on the children’s allowance
(c) They would not let the children take a rocket to New York
(d) The children are angry with them for working so much

2. What is “busy humming it to itself” in the opening paragraphs?
(a) The robot maid
(b) The nursery
(c) The baby
(d) The stove

3. What do George and Lydia hear while they are lying in bed?
(a) Lions roaring
(b) Their children whispering
(c) The front door opening and closing
(d) Two screams

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says: “My God we need a breath of fresh air”?

2. What do the beds “try” to do?

3. How long will it take to make “good children out of bad”?

4. What is the husband’s name?

5. What does George offer David McClean?

(see the answer key)

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