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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) They would not let the children take a rocket to New York
(d) The children are angry with them for working so much

2. Who says: “My God we need a breath of fresh air”?
(a) Wendy
(b) Peter
(c) Lydia
(d) George

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

4. What genre is The Veldt?
(a) Memoir
(b) Chick lit
(c) Romance
(d) Science fiction

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wendy offer Dr.McClean?

2. Who initially suggests that the family take a vacation and “shut the house off”?

3. What is their home called?

4. What is a major theme of The Veldt?

5. When was The Veldt published?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Peter threaten his father?

3. Why does George cave and turn the nursery on for just “one more minute”?

4. Why do George and Lydia suppose that they cannot change the nursery?

5. Lydia says about the nursery: “It’s supposed to help them work off their neuroses in a healthful way.” What does this mean? Has it worked?

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

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

8. How is dinner served to George and Lydia?

9. What does Dr. McClean suggest that George do to the nursery?

10. Explain how the nursery conjures the African veldt.

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