2. Who does the wife want the husband to call, and for what reason?
(a) A contractor to stop the leaking roof
(b) A furnace repairman to fix the heat
(c) A plumber to look at the clogged bathtub
(d) A psychologist to take a look at the nursery

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

4. 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) Wendy
(d) Peter

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

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

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

8. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?
(a) Dinner plates
(b) Ketchup
(c) Tea
(d) French fries

9. How much did they pay for their home?
(a) $15,000
(b) $60,000
(c) $30,000
(d) $45,000

10. Dinner is being prepared for a family of ________.
(a) Four
(b) Two
(c) Five
(d) Three

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

12. What does Dr. McClean say children prefer?
(a) Happiness
(b) Destruction
(c) Santas
(d) Scrooges

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

14. Who says the following: “But nothing’s too good for our children”?
(a) Peter
(b) George
(c) Lydia
(d) David

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