2. What is a major theme of The Veldt?
(a) Technology replacing human connection
(b) Finding true love
(c) War between two families
(d) Living in poverty

3. When was The Veldt published?
(a) 1970
(b) 1960
(c) 1980
(d) 1950

4. What happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?
(a) They cannot because the door is locked
(b) George finds a bloody tie tied around the doorknob
(c) An alarms sounds
(d) Lydia trips and sprains her ankle

5. What are the children’s names?
(a) Ruby and Max
(b) Penelope
(c) Peter and Wendy
(d) Liza, Ray, Flora

6. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?
(a) They threaten their parents with violence
(b) They act indifferent, as if they don’t care
(c) They try to blackmail their parents into turning it back on
(d) They scream and cry, and throw a tantrum

7. What does George try to conjure to get rid of the veldt?
(a) His favorite childhood fishing spot
(b) Rima and the jungle
(c) Aladdin and his lamp
(d) The prairie grasses of the Great Plains

8. What are the dimensions of the nursery?
(a) 20 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 30 feet high
(d) 40 feet across X 40 feet long X 10 feet high

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

10. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?
(a) George
(b) Lydia
(c) Peter
(d) David

11. What concerns George?
(a) George is concerned that the lions were killing and eating, which means that for this to happen his children had thought of death
(b) George is concerned that his children don’t come home for dinner
(c) George is concerned that Lydia doesn’t have enough to do in the house
(d) George is concerned that they don’t have enough money to pay their bills

12. What does Peter admit to?
(a) Secretly taking the trip to New York
(b) Conjuring up Africa
(c) Re-programming the house systems
(d) Sneaking out of the house

13. What is the wife’s name?
(a) Lydia
(b) Lois
(c) Rachel
(d) Wendy

14. What is on the wallet?
(a) Nothing; it is clean
(b) A green goo that is undecipherable
(c) Drops of saliva, chew marks, and smears of blood
(d) Bits of grass, water and mud

15. Who says, “I don’t want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do”?
(a) George
(b) Lydia
(c) Peter
(d) Wendy