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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concerns George?
(a) George is concerned that his children don’t come home for dinner
(b) George is concerned that the lions were killing and eating, which means that for this to happen his children had thought of death
(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

2. Who says, “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was before”?
(a) The wife
(b) Peter Hadley
(c) The husband
(d) The psychologist

3. What has happened to the parents at the end of the story?
(a) George and Lydia pack up their children and leave the house forever
(b) George and Lydia have been killed by lions by the will of their children
(c) Nothing happens, because despite Dr.McClean’s suggestions no changes are made
(d) The parents take the family on a vacation to Iowa

4. What is the husband’s name?
(a) David
(b) George
(c) Randall
(d) Leonard

5. What is David McClean?
(a) A computer repairman
(b) A machinist
(c) A psychologist
(d) A physician

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

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

8. What has just been eating in the nursery?
(a) No one and nothing has been eating in the nursery. The parents don’t allow it.
(b) Rabbits
(c) Lions
(d) Their children

9. What does the wife want the husband to take a look at?
(a) The furnace
(b) The stove
(c) The nursery
(d) The front door

10. How do they get to their bedrooms?
(a) By telepathically transporting
(b) Through a wall in the nursery
(c) By taking the stairs
(d) In an air closet that sucks them up to their sleeping chambers

11. What is flying overhead?
(a) Ducks
(b) Vultures
(c) Mary Poppins
(d) Pterodactyls

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

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

14. Who threatens George?
(a) Wendy
(b) David
(c) The nursery
(d) Peter

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr.McClean say that George has become?

2. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?

3. Who does George think is spoiled?

4. What does George try to conjure to get rid of the veldt?

5. What are the dimensions of the nursery?

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