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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) First person
(c) Second person
(d) Third-person limited

2. 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 and George are becoming unnecessary
(c) She feels that the house is too expensive
(d) That it no longer does what she expects it to

3. How many children are there in the family?
(a) One
(b) Four
(c) Three
(d) Two

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

5. Why does Lydia bolt and run?
(a) The lions are coming at them
(b) Someone is ringing the front doorbell
(c) George tells her to
(d) She is suddenly too hot and very thirsty

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

7. What do George and Lydia notice about the screams?
(a) They sound really close
(b) They don’t sound human
(c) They sound really far away
(d) They sound familiar

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

9. What does Dr. McClean think that the room has become more important than?
(a) The children’s relationship with each other
(b) The children’s real mother and father
(c) The children’s real friends
(d) The children’s attendance at school

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

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

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

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

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

15. How do the children react to the nursery being turned off?
(a) They try to blackmail their parents into turning it back on
(b) They act indifferent, as if they don’t care
(c) They threaten their parents with violence
(d) They scream and cry, and throw a tantrum

Short Answer Questions

1. What turns on and off as they walk through the house?

2. Dinner is being prepared for a family of ________.

3. What is David McClean?

4. Which word is used to describe the hallway?

5. From whose perspective is the story told?

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