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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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

4. From whose perspective is the story told?
(a) Lydia Hadley’s
(b) George Hadley’s
(c) Peter Hadley’s
(d) David McClean’s

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What is found on the floor of the nursery?
(a) An old wallet of George’s
(b) Cigarettes
(c) Dirty dishes
(d) Wendy’s blankie

12. Who initially believes that the nursery walls are too real?
(a) George
(b) Wendy
(c) Peter
(d) Lydia

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

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

15. To whom does the item belong?
(a) Wendy
(b) Lydia
(c) Peter
(d) George

Short Answer Questions

1. When George and David enter the nursery, what are the lions doing?

2. This is an example of what type of figurative language: “…and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry…”?

3. Complete the sentence: “…the walls began to ________ and recede into __________distance…”?

4. Who initially suggests that the family take a vacation and “shut the house off”?

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

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