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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) They were hearing the screams of their children
(c) The screams sounded familiar because they heard them repeatedly
(d) They were hearing their own screams

2. How old are the children?
(a) Seven years old
(b) Fifteen years old
(c) Three years old
(d) Ten years old

3. Who does George think is spoiled?
(a) Lydia
(b) Peter and Wendy
(c) All of them, the entire family
(d) Max and Ruby

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

5. What do the beds “try” to do?
(a) Rock Lydia and George to sleep
(b) Tell them that they didn’t hear anything
(c) Nothing; they are just beds
(d) Wake them up

Short Answer Questions

1. Who thinks Wendy changed the nursery from a veldt to a forest?

2. How do the children tell their parents that they won’t be home for dinner?

3. What do George and Lydia notice about the screams?

4. What is supposed to help the children “work off their neuroses in a healthful way”?

5. What has happened to the parents at the end of the story?

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