The Veldt Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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

The Veldt Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the parents think the children have been acting funny?
(a) The children no longer talk to them
(b) They have cut back on the children’s allowance
(c) The children are angry with them for working so much
(d) They would not let the children take a rocket to New York

2. What has the room become a channel for?
(a) Dreams
(b) Education
(c) Destructive thoughts
(d) Devastation

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mr. and Mrs. Hadley scream, they realize why the screams they heard before sound familiar. Why is this?

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

3. What are the dimensions of the nursery?

4. What does Dr.McClean say that George has become?

5. What does Lydia hear that George does not?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is odd about the children when Dr.McClean arrives?

2. What does Lydia believe the lions have just been doing? How does she know this?

3. How do Peter and Wendy trick George and Lydia into the nursery?

4. What does George find of his in the corner where the lions where feeding?

5. Explain the following quote: “Now we’re really going to start living. Instead of being handled and massaged, we’re going to live.”

6. How does Dr. McClean say the nursery feels?

7. What does Lydia think is wrong with her life?

8. What do they see when they all walk into the nursery together so that George can prove Africa is in there?

9. How does Peter threaten his father?

10. Explain how the nursery conjures the African veldt.

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