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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the wife’s name?
(a) Rachel
(b) Lydia
(c) Wendy
(d) Lois
2. Who says, “I don’t want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do”?
(a) Peter
(b) Lydia
(c) Wendy
(d) George
3. Why does Lydia bolt and run?
(a) George tells her to
(b) Someone is ringing the front doorbell
(c) The lions are coming at them
(d) She is suddenly too hot and very thirsty
4. What is their home called?
(a) A Joyfullife Home
(b) A Healthylife home
(c) A Happylife Home
(d) An Easylife Home
5. What is the problem that Lydia is beginning to feel with the house?
(a) She feels that the house is too expensive
(b) she and George are becoming unnecessary
(c) That it is too cold with all of the machines
(d) That it no longer does what she expects it to
6. What is a major theme of The Veldt?
(a) Technology replacing human connection
(b) Finding true love
(c) War between two families
(d) Living in poverty
7. What does Dr.McClean say that George has become?
(a) An angel
(b) A santa
(c) A scrooge
(d) A troll
8. What are the lions doing when Dr. McClean walks in?
(a) They are hunting
(b) They are finishing feeding and walking to the waterhole
(c) They are grooming each other
(d) They are sleeping
9. What is on the wallet?
(a) Bits of grass, water and mud
(b) Drops of saliva, chew marks, and smears of blood
(c) Nothing; it is clean
(d) A green goo that is undecipherable
10. What are the children’s names?
(a) Ruby and Max
(b) Peter and Wendy
(c) Penelope
(d) Liza, Ray, Flora
11. What is flying overhead?
(a) Vultures
(b) Pterodactyls
(c) Ducks
(d) Mary Poppins
12. What is the husband’s name?
(a) Randall
(b) David
(c) Leonard
(d) George
13. Who says the following: “But nothing’s too good for our children”?
(a) George
(b) David
(c) Peter
(d) Lydia
14. Who says, “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was before”?
(a) Peter Hadley
(b) The wife
(c) The husband
(d) The psychologist
15. How do they get to their bedrooms?
(a) Through a wall in the nursery
(b) In an air closet that sucks them up to their sleeping chambers
(c) By taking the stairs
(d) By telepathically transporting
Short Answer Questions
1. How old are the children?
2. Who says: “My God we need a breath of fresh air”?
3. What does Dr. McClean suggest George and Lydia do to change the path they’re on?
4. What is the family’s surname?
5. Who initially suggests that the family take a vacation and “shut the house off”?
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