The Veldt Test | Final Test - Medium

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

The Veldt Test | Final 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. What is David McClean?
(a) A physician
(b) A machinist
(c) A computer repairman
(d) A psychologist

2. 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

3. Who thinks Wendy changed the nursery from a veldt to a forest?
(a) David
(b) Peter
(c) Ruby
(d) Both George and Lydia

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, “I don’t want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do”?

2. What do they see when they look to the sky?

3. What does George offer David McClean?

4. When George walks into the nursery with the children, what is there?

5. Who are they going to have come look at Africa (the nursery) the following morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does George feel perspiration on his brown when he is in the nursery?

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

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

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

5. In the past, what has David McClean noticed about the nursery?

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

7. Why aren’t Wendy and Peter at dinner?

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

9. What does Lydia notice about George as well?

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

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