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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. 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) George
(d) Wendy
2. What is Lydia’s initial solution?
(a) To tear the room down
(b) To do nothing; the children will throw a fit
(c) To get rid of the machines
(d) To lock the nursery for a few days until her nerves are settled
3. What does Wendy offer Dr.McClean?
(a) A cup of tea
(b) A cup of coffee
(c) A ham and cheese sandwich
(d) A scone and jam
4. To whom does the item belong?
(a) Peter
(b) George
(c) Wendy
(d) Lydia
5. How much did they pay for their home?
(a) $15,000
(b) $30,000
(c) $60,000
(d) $45,000
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the author of The Veldt?
2. What is supposed to help the children “work off their neuroses in a healthful way”?
3. How do the children tell their parents that they won’t be home for dinner?
4. This is an example of what type of figurative language: “…and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry…”?
5. What is the wife’s name?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain Dr.McClean’s comment that children prefer santas over scrooges.
2. Explain the following quote: “And again George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room. A miracle of efficiency selling for an absurdly low price. Every home should have one.”
3. Explain the following quote: “Now we’re really going to start living. Instead of being handled and massaged, we’re going to live.”
4. What do the vultures in the African veldt scene indicate?
5. How is dinner served to George and Lydia?
6. What does George hear just as he enters the nursery (for the second time in the story)?
7. What is odd about the children when Dr.McClean arrives?
8. Why is George hesitant to lock up the nursery? What does he fear?
9. Where are George and Lydia Hadley?
10. What does Lydia believe the lions have just been doing? How does she know this?
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