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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What turns on and off as they walk through the house?
2. Who says the following: “But I thought that’s why we bought this house, so we wouldn’t have to do anything?”
3. Who is the author of The Veldt?
4. Who does George think is spoiled?
5. What does Lydia hear that George does not?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the following quote: “Now we’re really going to start living. Instead of being handled and massaged, we’re going to live.”
2. When George is sitting at dinner, he begins to think about the African veldt in the nursery. What does he realize the children have been thinking of, and why does it make him uneasy?
3. How is dinner served to George and Lydia?
4. How do Wendy and Peter tell their parents that they will be late for dinner?
5. Why does Lydia “bolt and run”?
6. What is odd about the children when Dr.McClean arrives?
7. How does Peter accidentally confess that they have, in fact, been conjuring Africa?
8. What does George hear just as he enters the nursery (for the second time in the story)?
9. Why does George laugh at Lydia once she runs out of the nursery?
10. Before the African veldt, what did the children conjure in the nursery?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
It is clear that the relationship between George and Lydia and their children is strained. At one point in the short story, George mentions that he and Lydia are treated like the offspring and not the parents.
Describe the relationship between the parents and children. How do George and Lydia know something isn’t right with their children?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze and discuss what you think are the characteristics of a successful novel or story and why The Veldt is or is not successful based on your criteria. Do you think the criteria for a successful story should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults?
Essay Topic 3
Examine the final scene in The Veldt. David McClean walks into the nursery where the children are sitting having a picnic lunch watching the lions feed.
What are the lions eating? Why is their behavior disturbing? What is significant about Wendy offering Dr.McClean a cup of tea? What does their behavior suggest about this society, or future society?
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