The Veldt Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 76 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Veldt Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 76 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lydia hear that George does not?
(a) Classical music
(b) A scream
(c) Songbirds
(d) Their children calling them

2. What does George offer David McClean?
(a) The newspaper
(b) Breakfast
(c) A ride back to his office
(d) A cup of tea

3. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?
(a) The dining room table
(b) Lydia’s heart
(c) The entire house
(d) The door to the nursery

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

5. How much did the nursery cost in comparison to the rest of the house?
(a) One third as much
(b) One-half as much
(c) Thrice as much
(d) Twice as much

6. What is described as, “It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon”?
(a) The backyard
(b) The outside
(c) The nursery
(d) The kitchen

7. How long has the African veldt been in the nursery?
(a) Just this morning
(b) A little over a month
(c) One week
(d) About two weeks

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

9. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?
(a) Having a formal dinner in the dinging room
(b) Eating lunch in what looks like an open glade in the nursery
(c) Napping in their beds
(d) Playing video games on the wall TVs in the living room

10. How old are the children?
(a) Fifteen years old
(b) Ten years old
(c) Seven years old
(d) Three years old

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

12. What doesn’t Dr. McClean think “feels good”?
(a) The nursery
(b) The emotion of the paint colors the Hadley’s chose
(c) The carpet under his feet
(d) George’s emotions

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

14. Who are they going to have come look at Africa (the nursery) the following morning?
(a) David McLean
(b) Ray Bradbury
(c) George Hadley
(d) Gloria Steinem

15. When Lydia sits down in the chair, what does it do?
(a) It rocks and comforts her
(b) It does nothing; it is a chair
(c) Puts a blanket on her
(d) Offers her a cup of coffee

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when George and Lydia try to escape the nursery?

2. Who says: “Nothing likes to die—even a room”?

3. What form of writing is The Veldt?

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

5. The following morning, what does Peter ask his father?

(see the answer keys)

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