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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 concerns George?

2. Dinner is being prepared for a family of ________.

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

4. Why do the parents think the children have been acting funny?

5. What do George and Lydia notice about the screams?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lydia propose to change her feelings of worthlessness?

2. Why does Lydia want George to look at the nursery?

3. George says that his children treat him as if he were the offspring. Provide examples of this sentiment from the text.

4. Why do George and Lydia suppose that they cannot change the nursery?

5. Before the African veldt, what did the children conjure in the nursery?

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

7. Why does George feel perspiration on his brown when he is in the nursery?

8. Why does Lydia “bolt and run”?

9. How do Wendy and Peter react when George asks them about Africa?

10. Why aren’t Wendy and Peter at dinner?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Bradbury’s work often makes a political statement about the future of our society.

Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Ray Bradbury. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Bradbury's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Bradbury's probable agenda concerning that idea.

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