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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the children tell their parents that they won’t be home for dinner?
(a) They called on a cellular phone
(b) They transported an image of themselves
(c) They just come home late
(d) They “televised” home to say they’d be late

2. What genre is The Veldt?
(a) Science fiction
(b) Romance
(c) Memoir
(d) Chick lit

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

4. What do they see when they look to the sky?
(a) Vultures
(b) Blue
(c) Storm clouds
(d) Macaws

5. When Mr. and Mrs. Hadley scream, they realize why the screams they heard before sound familiar. Why is this?
(a) They were hearing their neighbor’s screams
(b) The screams sounded familiar because they heard them repeatedly
(c) They were hearing the screams of their children
(d) They were hearing their own screams

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?

2. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?

3. What does Dr.McClean suggest George do to the nursery?

4. Why does George laugh at Lydia?

5. What is the nursery a reflection of?

(see the answer key)

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