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

2. What is supposed to help the children “work off their neuroses in a healthful way”?
(a) The nursery
(b) Their special school
(c) Their designated nap times
(d) Their robot friends

3. When George and David enter the nursery, what are the lions doing?
(a) Hunting
(b) Feeding
(c) Pacing
(d) Sleeping

4. What is David McClean?
(a) A computer repairman
(b) A physician
(c) A psychologist
(d) A machinist

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word is used to describe the hallway?

2. What turns on and off as they walk through the house?

3. What does Peter admit to?

4. What are the children doing when Dr. McClean arrives?

5. How much did they pay for their home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lydia hear that George does not – at least at first?

2. Why does Lydia want George to look at the nursery?

3. How does Peter accidentally confess that they have, in fact, been conjuring Africa?

4. What do the vultures in the African veldt scene indicate?

5. What does George hear just as he enters the nursery (for the second time in the story)?

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

7. How long does he think the children have been conjuring Africa? What had he noticed, but not paid attention to?

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

9. Why does Lydia want George to lock up the nursery?

10. Where do George and Lydia realize they’ve heard the screams before?

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