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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) Napping in their beds
(b) Playing video games on the wall TVs in the living room
(c) Having a formal dinner in the dinging room
(d) Eating lunch in what looks like an open glade in the nursery

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

3. What is George going to do with the nursery?
(a) Nothing; he doesn’t want to deal with the children throwing a tantrum
(b) He is going to secretly take out the machine and pretend like he doesn’t know what is wrong
(c) Keep it locked until he can figure out what is going on and why it is the veldt, and why his walled was in there
(d) Nothing; he doesn’t think that anything is wrong with the nursery

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is found on the floor of the nursery?

2. What have Peter and Wendy had for dinner at the carnival?

3. What is a major theme of The Veldt?

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

5. What does Wendy offer Dr.McClean?

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