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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 do George and Lydia hear while they are lying in bed?

2. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?

3. How long has the African veldt been in the nursery?

4. What does Dr.McClean find on the floor?

5. When Mr. and Mrs. Hadley scream, they realize why the screams they heard before sound familiar. Why is this?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does David McClean find on the floor of the nursery?

2. Describe the sensory experience of the nursery. What senses does the nursery appeal to? Use a description from the text as an example.

3. How does Dr. McClean say the nursery feels?

4. Explain how the nursery conjures the African veldt.

5. How does Peter threaten his father?

6. What does George find of his in the corner where the lions where feeding?

7. Why does Lydia want George to lock up the nursery?

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

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

10. How does the house take care of them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Foreshadowing is used in almost all works of fiction.

What is foreshadowing? Identify three instances of foreshadowing in The Veldt and what they foreshadow? How does foreshadowing contribute to a story's suspense? Are there any incidences that you thought foreshadows a future event, but it does not do so?

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