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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. When George and David enter the nursery, what are the lions doing?

2. How do the children tell their parents that they won’t be home for dinner?

3. What is “busy humming it to itself” in the opening paragraphs?

4. When Lydia sits down in the chair, what does it do?

5. Why does Lydia bolt and run?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Peter threaten his father?

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

3. George threatens to turn the entire house off for a month, how does Peter react?

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

5. How is dinner served to George and Lydia?

6. Why does George cave and turn the nursery on for just “one more minute”?

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

8. What do they see when they all walk into the nursery together so that George can prove Africa is in there?

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

10. Why does George laugh at Lydia once she runs out of the nursery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Both George and Lydia doubt themselves as parents throughout the short story.

Discuss three incidences in The Veldt where either George or Lydia seems unsure in their parenting decision. What is the result of this insecurity? Use examples from the text to illustrate the incidences.

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