2. How long has the African veldt been in the nursery?
(a) One week
(b) Just this morning
(c) About two weeks
(d) A little over a month

3. What do George and Lydia think is broken?
(a) The stove
(b) The nursery machinery
(c) The front door
(d) The dining room table

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

5. Who says the following: “But I thought that’s why we bought this house, so we wouldn’t have to do anything?”
(a) George
(b) Ruby
(c) Peter
(d) Lydia

6. What does Lydia hear that George does not?
(a) Their children calling them
(b) A scream
(c) Classical music
(d) Songbirds

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

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

9. What doesn’t Dr. McClean think “feels good”?
(a) George’s emotions
(b) The nursery
(c) The emotion of the paint colors the Hadley’s chose
(d) The carpet under his feet

10. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?
(a) Lydia’s heart
(b) The dining room table
(c) The entire house
(d) The door to the nursery

11. What are the lions doing when Dr. McClean walks in?
(a) They are grooming each other
(b) They are finishing feeding and walking to the waterhole
(c) They are hunting
(d) They are sleeping

12. What is the problem that Lydia is beginning to feel with the house?
(a) She feels that the house is too expensive
(b) That it is too cold with all of the machines
(c) That it no longer does what she expects it to
(d) she and George are becoming unnecessary

13. When George walks into the nursery with the children, what is there?
(a) The African veldt
(b) Rima, and a lovely lush green forest
(c) Nothing; the walls are blank
(d) The Grand Canyon

14. What is their home called?
(a) A Joyfullife Home
(b) A Healthylife home
(c) A Happylife Home
(d) An Easylife Home

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