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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. How far away are they when the nursery lights come on?
2. What has the room become a channel for?
3. What does Dr. McClean think that the room has become more important than?
4. What does Dr.McClean find on the floor?
5. What does Dr. McClean suggest George and Lydia do to change the path they’re on?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the sensory experience of the nursery. What senses does the nursery appeal to? Use a description from the text as an example.
2. What do the vultures in the African veldt scene indicate?
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. 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?
6. Why does George laugh at Lydia once she runs out of the nursery?
7. Why does Lydia want George to lock up the nursery?
8. In the past, what has David McClean noticed about the nursery?
9. Describe the nursery. Why is it a special room? What are the dimensions?
10. Why aren’t Wendy and Peter at dinner?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Stories can be plot or character driven, or even both with a balance of the two.
What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven or action driven? Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why? Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character are developed to the same degree? Why or why not? Explain your response.
Essay Topic 3
Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels.
Compare and contrast the characters of George and Lydia. How do they react differently to the children? To the nursery? How are their reactions similar? How do they view their lives as a family? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples.?
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