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

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…”?
(a) A simile
(b) Alliteration
(c) Personification
(d) A metaphor

3. 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) Their special school
(d) The nursery

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

5. What form of writing is The Veldt?
(a) A novel
(b) A short story
(c) A poem
(d) A novella

6. What have Peter and Wendy had for dinner at the carnival?
(a) Bread and butter
(b) Hot dogs and strawberry ice cream
(c) They have had protein smoothies
(d) They have not had dinner yet

7. Who says, “I don’t want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do”?
(a) Wendy
(b) Lydia
(c) George
(d) Peter

8. Who calls George and Lydia into the nursery?
(a) Max and Ruby
(b) The nursery calls them
(c) Peter and Wendy
(d) David McClean

9. What does Peter admit to?
(a) Sneaking out of the house
(b) Conjuring up Africa
(c) Secretly taking the trip to New York
(d) Re-programming the house systems

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

11. Which word is used to describe the hallway?
(a) Long
(b) Narrow
(c) Suffocating
(d) Soundproofed

12. What does Dr.McClean suggest George do to the nursery?
(a) Pre-program it
(b) He does not suggest he do anything with the nursery
(c) Lock it up
(d) Have the room torn down

13. What does Dr. McClean suggest George and Lydia do to change the path they’re on?
(a) Nothing. You’re on the right path
(b) Burn the house down
(c) Turn everything off. Start new
(d) Nothing. Your life is a like a dream

14. What is the nursery a reflection of?
(a) Books the children read
(b) The bad things in society
(c) The children’s psyches
(d) The good things in society

15. Complete the sentence: “…the walls began to ________ and recede into __________distance…”?
(a) Talk / far
(b) Purr / crystalline
(c) Argue / dark
(d) Shimmer / blinding

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the dimensions of the nursery?

2. What does Dr. McClean think that the room has become more important than?

3. Who does George think is spoiled?

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

5. What are the lions doing when Dr. McClean walks in?

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