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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?
(a) Playing video games on the wall TVs in the living room
(b) Napping in their beds
(c) Having a formal dinner in the dinging room
(d) Eating lunch in what looks like an open glade in the nursery

2. Who does the wife want the husband to call, and for what reason?
(a) A contractor to stop the leaking roof
(b) A plumber to look at the clogged bathtub
(c) A psychologist to take a look at the nursery
(d) A furnace repairman to fix the heat

3. What has happened to the parents at the end of the story?
(a) George and Lydia pack up their children and leave the house forever
(b) George and Lydia have been killed by lions by the will of their children
(c) Nothing happens, because despite Dr.McClean’s suggestions no changes are made
(d) The parents take the family on a vacation to Iowa

4. What turns on and off as they walk through the house?
(a) The heat
(b) Television walls
(c) Music
(d) The lights

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From whose perspective is the story told?

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

3. What is “busy humming it to itself” in the opening paragraphs?

4. What is on the wallet?

5. What does Dr. McClean say children prefer?

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