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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the lions going?
(a) To hunt
(b) To bed down for night time
(c) To the watering hole
(d) To eat

2. Who comes home late smelling like ozone?
(a) Peter and Wendy
(b) David
(c) George and Lydia
(d) Max and Ruby

3. What does the found item smell like?
(a) Rain and ferns
(b) Old cheese and meat
(c) Cigarette smoke
(d) Hot grass and lion

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

5. How does the nursery create scenes?
(a) It creates it telepathically based on what the children are thinking
(b) The scenes are based on books that the children read
(c) They are interactive television programs
(d) They are images taken with a camera and then uploaded onto the screens

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

7. Where does the family plan on going for vacation?
(a) To Oklahoma
(b) To Hawaii
(c) To Iowa
(d) To Florida

8. What do George and Lydia hear while they are lying in bed?
(a) Lions roaring
(b) Two screams
(c) The front door opening and closing
(d) Their children whispering

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

10. How much did the nursery cost in comparison to the rest of the house?
(a) One third as much
(b) Thrice as much
(c) One-half as much
(d) Twice as much

11. 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) Eating lunch in what looks like an open glade in the nursery
(d) Having a formal dinner in the dinging room

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

13. What is supposed to help the children “work off their neuroses in a healthful way”?
(a) Their designated nap times
(b) Their robot friends
(c) The nursery
(d) Their special school

14. Who thinks Wendy changed the nursery from a veldt to a forest?
(a) Ruby
(b) Both George and Lydia
(c) Peter
(d) David

15. What point of view is The Veldt told from?
(a) First person
(b) Third-person limited
(c) Second person
(d) Third-person omniscient

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the beds “try” to do?

2. Who says, “I don’t want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do”?

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

4. Who says the following: “But nothing’s too good for our children”?

5. Who threatens George?

(see the answer keys)

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