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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who says, “There’s no Africa in the nursery”?
(a) Peter
(b) George
(c) Lydia
(d) David

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

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

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

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

7. What does Dr.McClean say that George has become?
(a) An angel
(b) A scrooge
(c) A troll
(d) A santa

8. What happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?
(a) Lydia trips and sprains her ankle
(b) They cannot because the door is locked
(c) An alarms sounds
(d) George finds a bloody tie tied around the doorknob

9. Where are the lions going?
(a) To hunt
(b) To eat
(c) To the watering hole
(d) To bed down for night time

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

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

12. What are the dimensions of the nursery?
(a) 20 feet across X 40 feet long X 30 feet high
(b) 10 feet across X 15 feet long X 12 feet high
(c) 40 feet across X 40 feet long X 30 feet high
(d) 40 feet across X 40 feet long X 10 feet high

13. What is the family’s surname?
(a) Bradbury
(b) McClean
(c) Rosemont
(d) Hadley

14. What are the lions doing when Dr. McClean walks in?
(a) They are grooming each other
(b) They are finishing feeding and walking to the waterhole
(c) They are hunting
(d) They are sleeping

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What genre is The Veldt?

2. Who says the following: “But I thought that’s why we bought this house, so we wouldn’t have to do anything?”

3. How far away are they when the nursery lights come on?

4. What does the wife want the husband to take a look at?

5. How much did the nursery cost in comparison to the rest of the house?

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